Details (Expert)
- Beteiligte
- Datierung
- Inka 1450 - 1550Datierung engl.: Inca 1450 - 1550
- Material / Technik
- Baumwolle
- Abmessungen
- Länge x Breite: 55 x 16 cm
- Permalink
- https://id.smb.museum/object/43945
Objektbeschreibung
Two fragmented quipus tied together. Or maybe two fragmented pieces of the same quipu ?
1.
No. of pendants: ca 48
Groups: 6 x 8 pendants
Colors: tans, blue
Color combinations: monochrome, speckled, spliced
Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, topstrings
Ply: S
Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants and topstrings 1,8 - 2,2mm,secondaries 0,8-2,2mm
Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring)?? -as beginning and end of mains cannot be defined. But all same.
Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (S), single knots (Z)
2. fragment.
Like 1. only here are no spliced pendants but there is one spiral secondary.
Letzte Aktualisierung: 17.03.2026
Kontakt
Einrichtung:
Ethnologisches Museum
E-Mail:
em@smb.spk-berlin.de