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The quipu is unsual. Has MANY secondaries, tert., quart.. Sometimes secondaries in clusters (on one pend 27 second.!). There are several longknots on one pendant and single knots both under and over longknots. A longknot on mainstring.
The red and yellow yarns are wool - some pendants are twined from a mix of cotton and wool.


Groups: irregular

Colors: tan, blue (cotton(; red, yellow (wool).

Color combinations: monochrome, speckled

Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, tert.,quart.
Ply: all Z
Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants 2-3,5 mm
Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring)

Knots: 1/2 endknots (a single knot securing the pendant tied with only part of the pendant as active), 8, long knots ( Z), single knots ( Z)