Quipu/Counting record
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Quechua
- Artist/Maker
- Manuel Quispe, Quechua
- NMAI agent
- Jorge A. Flores Ochoa, Quechua, 1935-2020
- Presenter/funding source
- The Greenwich Workshop, Inc.
- Collection History
- Purchased by Jorge Flores Ochoa (1935-2020, former Rector of the University National San Antonio Abad, Cusco, Peru) from the artist in 1996 with funds donated by The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. (Fine Art publisher, Seymour, Connecticut).
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- Date created
- 1996
- Catalog Number
- 25/4628
- Barcode
- 254628.000
- Object Type
- Indigenous Knowledge and Records
- Object Name
- Quipu/Counting record
- Media/Materials
- Wool yarn
- Techniques
- Knotted
- Place
- Ocongate; Quispicanchis Province; Cusco (Cuzco) Region; Peru
- See related items
- Quechua
- Indigenous Knowledge and Records
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_270586
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6495384b6-3294-493c-8b3f-093212770c26
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