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)
- Beteiligte
- Datierung
- Inka 1400 - 1532
- Geografische Bezüge
- Abmessungen
- Länge x Breite: 55 x 35 cmGewicht: < 2 kg
- Permalink
- https://id.smb.museum/object/39450
Objektbeschreibung
The quipu is unsual. Has MANY secondaries, tert., quart.. Sometimes secondaries in clusters (on one pend 27 second.!). There are several longknots on one pendant and single knots both under and over longknots. A longknot on mainstring.
The red and yellow yarns are wool - some pendants are twined from a mix of cotton and wool.
Groups: irregular
Colors: tan, blue (cotton(; red, yellow (wool).
Color combinations: monochrome, speckled
Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, tert.,quart.
Ply: all Z
Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants 2-3,5 mm
Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring)
Knots: 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)
Letzte Aktualisierung: 17.03.2026
Kontakt
Einrichtung:
Ethnologisches Museum
E-Mail:
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