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.
Sammler: Gretzer, Wilhelm
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