Details (expert)
- Involved
- Dating
- Inka 1400 - 1550
- Geographical references
- Material / Technique
- Baumwolle, Kameliden Wolle
- Dimensions
- Länge x Breite: 25 x 25 cm
- Permalink
- https://id.smb.museum/object/39469
Object Description
Groups: irregular
Colors: browns, one red
Color combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral, spliced
Strings: main, pendants, top, secondaries
Ply:all S
Diameter: main 4mm, pendants 1,8.2,3mm
Verso (tying pendant to mainstring):
Knots:one 1/1 endknots (like a single knot), long knots (Z), single knots (Z)
The quipu is mainly of wool. All pendants are fragmented. At the beginning loop one pendant is tied. To this another pendant is tied with a simple knot with a single knot midway on the pendant - maybe it is another quipu? Too fragmented to decide.
Last updated: 17.03.2026
Contact
Institution:
Ethnologisches Museum
Email:
em@smb.spk-berlin.de