Quipu

Quipu

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Central andes XIII-XVI sec. A.D. (Inca)

Quipu (system of cords with nodes that served for the calculation of objects, goods and to censure the population in the Inca empire)

Natural cotton, crowning, knotting, funeral goods
C.I.C. 107, Donation M. Marini Montesoro, 1957