Khipu

Khipu

Groups: 4 x 9pendants Colors: tan, brown, blue Color combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, Ply: all S Diameter: main 6mm, pendants 1,8-2,5mm 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 (Z) Very high numbers - single knots at 4 levels. The quipu is stitched to a canvas stretched to a frame in an earlier concervation.

Object Details

• Location: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Inventory number: V A 47083
• Measurements: Gewicht: < 2 kg ; Länge x Breite: 67 x 21 cm
• Material/Technique: Baumwolle

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Julius van der Zypen (1906/1907), Mäzen*atin
• (where): Peru ; Ica
• (when): Inka 1400 - 1550
• Event: Sammeltätigkeit
• (who): Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926), 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, 12:20 AM CEST