…he died shortly thereafter. Magellan’s expedition emerged from the straight in late November and set sail for the Philippines. In 1558, Spanish navigator Juan Ladrillero took possession of the same…
Settlement patterns
…from keñua wood. It contains separate modules for the kitchen, sleeping area, and food storage, and its door points eastward. The structure is windowless, to keep out the cold. The…
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 that…
Culto y Funebria
…While cemeteries in different valleys exhibit some major differences, the custom of burying dead individuals along with whole or partial guanaco cadavers was common, perhaps as a form of…
Historia
…evolved into amulets, sometimes with holes so they could be worn as pendants, indicating a profound change in custom. The consumption of hallucinogenic substances persisted, but the previously popular pipes…
Pipes of Central Chile
…Ritual pipe smoking was a common practice among early agricultural groups in the region, but the custom seems to have disappeared around 400 C.E. in Chile’s far north…
Ketru–Emblem of the Married Mapuche Woman
…carried on the back of the larger duck. In the Mapuche tradition, the machi (shaman) gives a ketru metawe to a Mapuche woman after she is married, when custom dictates…
Horticulturalist of the Semi-arid north
…differences that set the El Molle people apart. The most notable of these was that the adoption of horticulture did not go hand in hand with camelid herding, in contrast…
Social Organization
…of the Diaguita indigenous people, today these people are organized according to the provisions set out in the Indigenous Law for that purpose. The first Diaguita community officially constituted under…
Inka Provincial Ceramics
…The aríbalo jug, the pedestal pot and the plate together consituted the basic set of ceramic vessels used by individuals and groups residing in provinces under Inka Imperial…
Beliefs and funerary practices
…sacrificed. The ancestors are remembered and honored on the first three days of November, during Todos los Santos (All Saints) celebration, when ritual tables are set loaded with food and…
South Central
…of this conflict, the southern frontier of Spanish control was set at the Bío Bío River; beyond that, Arauco continued to present a great challenge. The so-called Arauco War, immortalized…
Environment and Location
…Rapa Nui, as Easter Island is known to local inhabitants, is one of the most remote populated places on the planet. Set in the midst of the Pacific Ocean,…
Settlement pattern
…in the shape of a flattened cone at their temporary camps. These elliptical shaped structures consisted of a series of long, straight branches set into the ground and leaning inward….
Economy
…also weakens the social structures set up to control and manage resources, that are the basis of power and authority in the community. On the other hand, livestock herding is…
Art
…obsidian eyes were set in place at this time, along with its enormous red scoria headpiece resembling the ariki’s turban or topknot, which was a sign of divine origin….
Patrón de Asentamiento
…good, the windbreak was set up in an open semicircle, while in winter it was enclosed and reinforced. When several families camped in the same spot, they erected their tents…
Center
…were set alight by the valleys and ravines endowed with abundant freshwater springs and rivers and dotted with settlements in which the indigenous people grew crops and raised livestock, and…
Economy
…as seafood from the coast. Tehuelche women were responsible for domestic tasks (collecting firewood and water for cooking), and the set up and dismantling of their transportable shelters. They raised…
The devils`tale
…the young men set off again, but when they reached the same bend in the road, they met the same two strangers, who told them that mass would start even…