Details (Expert)
- Beteiligte
- Datierung
- Inka 1450 - 1550Datierung engl.: Inca 1450 - 1550
- Material / Technik
- Baumwolle
- Abmessungen
- Länge x Breite: 70 x 42 cm
- Permalink
- https://id.smb.museum/object/43932
Objektbeschreibung
The quipu is fragmented at both ends, and in a very bad condition. Many pendants have broken - as usual mostly tha dark ones.
No. of pendants.:ca 130
Groups: 8 x 16 (sometimes 17 ) pendants
Colors: tans, blue
Color combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral
Strings: main, pendants, secondaries
Ply:S
Diameter: main 5mm, pendants 2-2,5mm
Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring)? (fragmented main)
Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (Z), single knots (Z)
Letzte Aktualisierung: 17.03.2026
Kontakt
Einrichtung:
Ethnologisches Museum
E-Mail:
em@smb.spk-berlin.de