The oldest coastal groups moved constantly up and down the coastal strip, occupying the same sites time after time and making occasional journeys inland. In the same period…
Far South
…century, but it was not until the 19th century that they began to explore the mouths of its rivers and then the interior, which was later occupied to extract wood…
History
…were moved away from the latter site when it was established as a Chilean naval base, and by the 1970s most had been moved to Villa Ukika. The government’s aim…
Arid North
…a mixture of Spaniards, natives, mestizos and African slaves. The District of Tarapacá was divided into several large doctrinas (mission districts) and parishes, each with its associated villages. Two of…
Social organization
…grupos Tilocalar cierta especialización del trabajo y es probable que hayan comenzado a configurarse grupos de poder al interior de su sociedad, posiblemente ligados a las actividades ceremoniales que practicaban…
The Kultrun
…surrounded by the astral powers that assist him or her. The interior of the kultrun contains magic objects as well as the voice of the machi, which was introduced as…
De la tierra a la pantalla
…Viaje al interior de las vidas de tres comunicadores Mapuche que a través de radio, video e Internet, combaten los medios de comunicación masiva con imágenes y los puntos…
El gorro troncocónico de Arica
…un cordel para pasarlo por debajo de la barbilla, y en ocasiones, penachos de plumas fijados por el interior del gorro con una espina o un nudo. Realización animación: Carlos…
Mapuche
…as we understand it). It is a way of conveying ideas, expressing emotions and communicating the interior self, and for this reason it does not matter whether one is a…
Haciendo un casco andino
…se inserta por el interior un cordón torcido que sirve como carrillera. Los diseños policromos que ostentan muchos de estos cascos se realizan cambiando el color de los hilados envolventes,…
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 la…
History
…in the interior, in the southern part of Tehuelche territory. As large tracts of land were fenced off for sheep ranching, the natives began to lose their traditional access to…
Settlement pattern
…their agricultural fields. The central dwelling of the village was the hare paenga, shaped like an inverted boat and measuring ten to fifteen meters long and two meters wide. Its…
Culto y Funebria
These groups employed a number of different techniques to bury their dead, and frequently used middens or rocky outcrops as burial sites. Bodies were sometimes laid out straight…
Rapa Nui
…of each lineage carved in rock—that the natives revered. In 1774, English commander James Cook disembarked on the island, explored the locality of Hanga Roa and journeyed to the interior….
Patrón de Asentamiento
…conditions were well suited to gathering the resources needed, which allowed these groups to establish semi-sedentary nuclear settlements near stable water sources. Their dwellings consisted of tent-like structures containing a…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…Inside their dwellings, these hunter-gatherers installed floors of mortar made of seaweed ash and sea water, which were laid to cover the bodies of their dead. Red pigment was…
Settlement patterns
…included dances with kollong masks. Today, the vast majority of Mapuche communities live in western style dwellings, although their interior divisions and usage of space are reminiscent of the traditional…
Settlement pattern
…settlement. Access to and from these enclosures was through the many interior walkways and courtyards, where the residents performed tasks such as grinding. During the Regional Development period two- or…
Marine hunters, fishers and gatherers
…The invention of fish hooks and then seagoing vessels by some early marine hunter-gatherer groups was a turning point that transformed their way of life, transforming fishing into…
The son of the animals
…The Mapuche people tell the story of a woman who was raped before her husband had returned home from war and who escaped into the forest to give birth…
Social organization
Early hierarchical structuring among the San Pedro people has been deduced from the presence of different assemblages of grave goods, which suggests that some individuals enjoyed a more…
Economy
Two kinds of hunter-gatherer societies occupied this territory, each with a distinct subsistence economy: in the inland ravines and valleys groups based their diet on hunting of land…