…Animación que narra un viaje de Darwin. El año 1832 se llevó a cabo una de las expediciones más importantes de la historia: el viaje del naturalista inglés Charles…
The Story of the Toads
…As told by José Tonko Wide (Kstákso) Horcón, 1976 The east wind and the west wind say this, that … they blew, were blowing against one another, so the…
Patrón de Asentamiento
…usually constructed for the Hain ritual. The more commonly found type of Selk’nam dwelling was the windbreak or tent. These were more or less cone-shaped structures made of trunks and…
Environment and Location
…in the lowland areas where the winter pastures are located. The highlands or summer pastures has a cold mountain desert climate with occasional precipitation in winter and summer. In the…
Environment and Location
…The Selk’nam inhabited the Isla Grande (large island) of Tierra del Fuego, which was divided into the Párik, the windy plains region north of the Rio Grande, and Hérsk,…
Wooden People
…Up until the early 20th Century, the Mapuche used large wooden statues called chemamull in their kurikawin or funerary rites. These enormous wooden statues were placed beside the…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…themselves often were enclosed with stone walls, leaving a square opening for a window. The burial sites sometimes contained a single individual, but usually included several bodies in what were…
Environment and Location
…it difficult to precisely define Tehuelche boundaries in terms of rivers or other geographical features. The Patagonian climate had a highly variable temperature range, both between summer and winter and…
Hunters of the Megafauna
…large herbivores such as the mastodon, the giant sloth, the American horse and the American camel flourished throughout the Americas. All of these so-called megafauna are now extinct. These animals…
Economía
…sloths), but the guanaco always remained their main food source. Their group hunting techniques required coordination among a large group of people, which surrounded or cornered game animals before incapacitating…
The petroglyphs of Tamentica
…wings outstretched and four-legged camelids stylized to different degrees predominate, but the site also contains representations of unidentified quadrupeds, felines, lizards, frogs, snakes, fish and spiders, as well as a…
Ketru–Emblem of the Married Mapuche Woman
…The ketru metawe is an asymmetrical pitcher in the shape of a duck. Many of these vessels have wings, tails and female breasts, and some include a duckling…
Tiwanaku Hats in Arica
…designs that evoke the stepped pyramids of that Alitplano site. The points of the hats represent the heads of these upward-gazing birds, and some of them even have wings….
Aymara
For thousands of years music has played a major role in Andean societies. Proof of this is found in the countless musical instruments discovered during archeological excavations of…
The devils`tale
…to the Earth—Pacha Mama—so that it will continue to reproduce and multiply, and so the food, wine, coca leaves, and all other things do not run out. That is what…
Makemake the Creator
…landed heavily on Makemake’s right arm, startling the Creator, who now saw a being with beak, wings and feathers reflected in the gourd. He took the gourd with the two…
A tale of two brothers
…the cock does not crow, although he pushes and prods it. When the devils seem to be ending their dance, the man crows and flaps his wings like a rooster….
The condor and the shepherdess
…the condor. And as the picaflor flew away to freedom, all of the birds that the condor had called together laughed uproariously and flapped their wings in amusement. The grandfathers…
The Son of the Canelo
…the Son of Canelo become the hero who exterminated all of the terrifying creatures. One day another man appeared, and Alape took him under his wing. He instructed him to…
Kospi
…her away in the crevasse of a glacier. Kospi screamed for help, but no one heard her. Fall passed, then winter. When spring came, the meltwater ran down the mountain…
Settlement Pattern
…Tapia. These seasonal shelters, called majadas, are found in both winter and summer grazing grounds and are constructed of a variety of materials including mud, stone and tin, and covered…
Settlement Pattern
…who live on larger parcels maintain farm fields and orchards alongside their dwellings. Only a few Diaguita families still practice seasonally nomadic herding, journeying from winter to summer grazing grounds…
Música Mapuche
…Disco que acompaña al libro Música Mapuche, de José Pérez de Arce. Kawin Machi Marcelina Malalcahuello – Oralidad Río Cautín, sector Manzanar – Guillatún Estadio Municipal de Villarrica -…