Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Lena Bjerregaard CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Details (expert)
- Creator/Entity
- Date(s)
- Inka 1450 - 1550Datierung engl.: Inca 1450 - 1550
- Systematics/Type
- Geographical references
- Material / Technique
- Baumwolle
- Dimensions
- Länge x Breite: 73 x 47 cm
- Permalink
- https://id.smb.museum/object/39468
Object Description
No. of pendants: 88
Groups: 3xA,space, 13 x A, B, A
A= 5 pendants, B= 3 pendants. Probably B has just lost two pendants and is really also A
Colors: tans, blue
Color combinations: monochrome
Strings: main, pendants,
Ply: S . One pendant in group 7 A is Z !
Diameter: main 4mm, pendants 1,8 - 2,5mm
Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring) ?? All the same, but as main is fragmented at both ands start/ end of main cannot be stated.
Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 1/2 endknots (a single knot securing the pendant tied with only part of the pendant as active).
No 8, long or single knots.
To one pendant of group A 9 three complete pendants are tied in a loose knot.
These have long knots(S) and single knots (Z) and end knots 1/1. One of these pendants is speckled.
Last updated: 17.03.2026
Contact
Institution:
Ethnologisches Museum
Email:
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