Tejido de urdimbre complementaria, bordado en puntada de tallo sobre algodón y flecadura por torsión (borlas), fibra de camélido. El motivo central de esta bolsa es un personaje…
Art
Until the time of the Spanish conquest, both men and women wore thick tunics made from llama or alpaca wool and drawn in at the waist with a…
The picture-engravings of Taira
…arte rupestre en los Andes atacameños,” in Arte rupestre en los Andes de Capricornio, J. Berenguer and F. Gallardo, Eds., pp. 21–30, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago. For more…
The petroglyphs of Kalina
…Andes atacameños,” in Arte rupestre en los Andes de Capricornio, J. Berenguer and F. Gallardo, Eds., pp. 12-21, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago. For more information: J. Berenguer, 2004,…
The pictographs of Cueva Blanca
…eds., pp. 68-70, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago. For more information: J. Berenguer, 2004, “Cinco milenios de arte rupestre en los Andes atacameños: Imágenes para lo humano, imágenes para…
The pictographs of Confluencia
…del desierto de Atacama,” in Arte rupestre en los Andes de Capricornio, J. Berenguer and F. Gallardo, eds., pp. 67, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago. For more information: J….
The devils`tale
Out in the country, far from a small town about half the size of Toconce, a small group of farmers lived beside their fields. There was no church…
Beliefs and funeral rites
According to their myths, the Tehuelche descended from higher beings. Their supreme being was called Kooch, the all powerful ruler of the cosmos, creator of the sun and…
Beliefs and funeral rites
Modern Aymara religion is a syncretic belief system, a mixture of custom—the group’s traditional cosmic vision—and religion—practices of the Catholic Church. Together, these two systems form a whole…
Social organization
The Aymara people include several ethnic subgroups, each with its own dialect and social structure. In general, their social organization is based on territorial divisions, although the adoption…
Pueblos atacameños: estilo y entusiasmo 1969-1988
Recopilación de cantos y música atacameña registradas por distintos investigadores entre 1969 y 1988 en las comunidades de Peine, Socaire, Cámar, Talabre, Toconao, San Pedro de Atacama y…
Art
Arica ceramics display high technical quality and their painted polychromatic decorations feature anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric designs. The level of standardization this ceramic tradition achieved reflects a solid…
Bolsa – Faja
Tejido de urdimbre complementaria, fibra de camélido. Por lo general, la cara interior de estas fajas, que va pegada al cuerpo, sólo presenta listados. Hacia el final de…
Arid North
The hispanic arid north: from the Viceroyalty of Peru to the Audience of Charcas In mid-1536, Diego de Almagro began making preparations for his return trip to…
Art
Painting was a key element in Tehuelche art and was practiced on different media. Facial and body paints were applied daily as protection from the elements and for…
History
The history of the indigenous population of Ollagüe and San Pedro Estación is linked to that of the neighboring Uyuni Salt Flat in Southwest Bolivia. Archeology in the…
The geoglyph of Cerro Sagrado
Cerro Sagrado (Sacred Mount) is located in the Azapa Valley, eight kilometers from the Pacific coast. The mountain slope that faces the valley holds a geoglyph outlined…
Settlement pattern
Settlements in this zone were situated between 3,000 and 4,000 m above sea level and consisted of several well-defined sectors placed close together. Villages with a clustered dwelling…
Beliefs and funeral rites
These groups usually buried their dead in small rock shelters on the steep ravine cliffs located near their settlements, although they sometimes also built cemeteries of cylindrical underground…
Economy
The economy of the Cabuza communities was agriculture-based, and they adopted several new farming tools and more complex irrigation techniques to grow maize, several kinds of squash, beans,…