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- Quipu/Counting record (Image withheld, pending review)
Quipu/Counting record (Image withheld, pending review)
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of José A. Gayoso (1898-1970, a landowner in Chongoyape, Peru, who sidelined in excavating and selling antiquities); purchased by MAI from José Gayoso in 1930.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- AD 1450–1540 (Late Horizon period)
- Catalog Number
- 17/8825
- Barcode
- 178825.000
- Culture/People
- probably Inka (Inca) (archaeological) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- José A. Gayoso (José Galloso), Non-Indian, 1898-1970
- Seller
- José A. Gayoso (José Galloso), Non-Indian, 1898-1970
- Object Type
- Indigenous Knowledge and Records
- Indigenous Term
- khipu
- Object Name
- Quipu/Counting record (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Cotton cord/cordage, agave/maguey fiber cordage, vegetal dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Dyed, plied, spun, knotted, looped, tied
- Dimensions
- 105.00 x 46.00 cm
- Place
- Nasca (Nazca) region; Peru
- See related items
- Inka (Inca) (archaeological)
- Indigenous Knowledge and Records
- Record ID
- NMAI_191552
- Usage
- CC0
