…Eduardo Rapiman, pintor mapuche Grabado en la Región de la Araucanía – Chile. Programa de la serie LENGUAS INDIGENAS DE CHILE, producida por la Red de Derechos Educativos de…
Story of the Forbidden Otter and the Great Flood
…Narrated by José Tonko Wide (Kstákso) Puerto Edén, 1975 A long time ago, while his father….was out hunting otters and birds, a young man went out after him to…
Mapuche Dungun – La palabra
…Teresa Panchillo, poeta mapuche. Grabado en la Región de la Araucanía – Chile. Programa de la serie LENGUAS INDIGENAS DE CHILE, producida por la Red de Derechos Educativos de…
Pa`que coman las almas. La muerte en el alto Loa
…Disco complementario al libro “Pa`que coman las almas. La muerte en el alto Loa”. Contiene los cantos relacionados a los ritos de muerte en los pueblos atacameños de Ayquina…
Economy
…necessities. They hunted these animals using bolas, surrounding their prey in a semi-circle with the help of horses and dogs. The people also gathered edible and medicinal plants, as well…
Rock Art
…This section discloses several of the key sites of rock art in Chile, addressing their characteristics, contexts and meanings. The works comprise the three main techniques employed by the…
Kai Kai y Treng Treng
…A long time ago, in Mapuche territory, an enormous serpent rose up from the sea and began crying, kai, kai, kai, louder and louder, shriller and shriller. The serpent’s…
Art
…The El Molle people were expert stoneworkers who sculpted and polished stone to produce pipes in inverted-T forms, as well as their characteristic lip ornaments known as tembetás, which…
Organización Social
…Tierra del Fuego’s Isla Grande was divided into haruwen (territories), each occupied by an extended family group. Selk’nam society was organized around four basic social institutions. The first was…
Mapuche
…from other vernacular music on the continent. Among the Mapuche people the machi or shaman is considered the expert singer. Through song, he or she connects to the world of…
Art
…The Rapa Nui people developed an advanced and sophisticated megalithic art tradition that emerged from their intense devotion to ancestor worship and is unparalleled in Polynesia. Over a period…
Arte
…and skins, usually guanaco, although they preferred fox for their capes. They also used the skins of rodents, birds, otters and sea lions. Every member of the group wore a…
Art
…although the different styles are also in evidence—an earlier style, denominated San Miguel, with red- or black- on white designs, and the later Pocoma-Gentilar style, which features motifs in black,…
The devils`tale
…that they could attend. One Sunday morning, three young men from the area were walking toward the town when they came around a bend in the road and encountered two…
Economy
…The traditional economy of the Atacameños is based on agriculture and livestock herding, activities that are practiced in the region’s different ecosystems, which are identified, classified and exploited according…
Economy
…who hunted these camelids with bow and arrow and also with bolas. This activity was exclusive to the male members of the group, although both men and women fished and…
Environment and Location
…their entire territory. The vegetation is dense at these latitudes up to an altitude of about 500m (1600 feet), which made it difficult to move about on land. Temperatures in…
El zorro y el cóndor (Animation, spanish)
…Animación en plasticina basada en una leyenda recogida en la localidad de Ayquina (II región, norte de Chile). El cuento, común a la narrativa tradicional de los andes sur,…
El zorro y el cóndor. Un cuento de los Andes
…Animación en plasticina basada en una leyenda recogida en la localidad de Ayquina (II región, norte de Chile). El cuento, común a la narrativa tradicional de los andes sur,…
Ketru–Emblem of the Married Mapuche Woman
…territory of her (male) mate, a situaiton analagous to the Mapuche matrimonial tradition. Like the male ketru, the Mapuche husband is expected to protect the female and her offspring. The…