Fotonachweis: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Fotonachweis: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki
Details (Expert)
- Datierung
- Inka 1450 - 1550Datierung engl.: Inca 1450 - 1550
- Geografische Bezüge
- Abmessungen
- Objektmaß: 2,5 x 28 x 66 cmGewicht: < 2 kgVerpackungsmaß: 8 x 80 x 54 cm
- Permalink
- https://id.smb.museum/object/14477
Objektbeschreibung
No. of pendants: 180
Groups: 20 groups of 9 pendants - 10 on each side of the wooden bar
Colors: tans (very discolored)
Color combinations: monochrome, speckled
Strings: main, pendants,
Ply:S
Diameter: main 2mm, pendants 1,5-2,5mm
Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring) The main is fragmented at both ends. However the side of the quipus that is towards the outside is verso.
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), 8, long knots (Z), single knots (Z)
The quipu is stretched on a wooden bar - one group of 9, through the bar, next group of 9 on the opposite side of the bar, next group back again - crossing likewise through the whole bar, and back again ( first and last two groups are together.
The two yarns protuding from the bar under the figure is not attached to the quipu.
The wooden bar has a carved bird (tukan ?) at one end and a person with a kop (kero) at the other. Quipu starts and ends at bird end.
Letzte Aktualisierung: 17.03.2026
Kontakt
Einrichtung:
Ethnologisches Museum
E-Mail:
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