Decimal Khipu (Knot Writing Device)

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureInka or Spanish

PeriodLate Intermediate - Colonial

Dateca. 1489-1652 CE

MediumCotton

Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge

DimensionsObject (as displayed): 20 × 39 in. (50.8 × 99.1 cm) Mounting Board: 25 1/2 × 41 1/2 in. (64.8 × 105.4 cm)

Object number2002.001.118

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Textile Rotation 8, September 12, 2016 - February 1, 2017
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, September - November 2002.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/51.

ProvenanceEx coll. Curtice M. Clay Aldridge (1910-2003), Columbus, Georgia.

Status

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