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Ethnologisches Museum Amerikanische Archäologie [V A 37867 b]
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Provenance/Rights: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Lena Bjerregaard (CC BY-NC-SA)
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Description

No. of strings: 6 pendants, + two secondaries

Groups: two groups: one with 5 pendants,and after 6 cm distance one pendant

Colors: tans

Color combinations: monochrome, speckled

Strings: main, pendants, secondaries
Ply:S
Diameter: main 1,5mm, pendants 1,2 -2mm
Recto (tying pendant to mainstring) Second group (consisting of one pendant is tied to the main through the twining loop!!

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), long knots (Z),
Sammler: Gretzer, Wilhelm

Material/Technique

Baumwolle

Measurements

Länge x Breite: 35 x 7,5 cm

Created Created
1450
Peru
Created Created
1450
nahe Lima
1449 1552
Ethnologisches Museum

Object from: Ethnologisches Museum

Das aus der königlichen Kunstkammer hervorgegangene Ethnologische Museum gehört seit seiner Gründung 1873 international zu den größten und...

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