Khipu

Khipu

Groups: not repetitive Colors: browns, blue/green Color combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, maybe 2 topstrings? Ply: all S Diameter: main 4mm, pendant 1,5-2,5mm 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-knots, long knots ( S), single knots (S)

Object Details

• Location: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Inventory number: V A 22928
• Measurements: Länge x Breite: 69 x 55 cm
• Material/Technique: Baumwolle

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Herstellung
• (where): Peru ; Ancon
• (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