Khipu

Khipu

Groups: none Colors: beige, dark brown, blue, black, green Color combinations: speckled. spliced, spiral Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, tertiaries Ply: all S Diameter: main 2,5mm, pendants 1-2mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring) 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.

Object Details

• Location: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Inventory number: V A 22574
• Measurements: Länge x Breite: 37 x 30,5 cm
• Material/Technique: Baumwolle

Contributors, Places and Time

• Culture: Chancay
• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Chancay (Herstellende Kultur)
• (where): Peru
• (when): Inka 1400 - 1550
• Event: Sammeltätigkeit
• (who): Arthur Baessler (6.5.1857 - 31.3.1907), Sammler*in

Further information

• Other object pages: Show object in "Collections from Colonial Contexts"
• Rights: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Last update: 06.08.2025, 12:22 AM CEST