Luego de cantar a lo divino a la Virgen del Paso del Clarillo, los cantores pircano se alegran cantando y bailando cuecas. Chosto Ulloa toca guitarra y canta,…
Implements for Inhaling Hallucinogenic Substances
…leather pouch. To prepare the substance, the seeds were crushed to powder in a mortar. For snuffing the powder was dropped on the tablet using a special spoon and spread…
Far South
…trinkets, including a mirror, bells, a comb and glass beads. Other natives arrived and offered the Spanish sailors “some white powder made from the root of some plants.” The Europeans…
Mantel: inkuña
…sugiere pasar del centro oscuro y profundo del corazón al cuerpo externo, y visible. Hacia la boca, los colores se funden y ablandan, creando un puente más allá de los…
Settlement patterns
…Land of the East, homeland of the Gods. Inside, the hearth (kutral) was placed at the center and always kept burning, coating the walls with soot. The Mapuche used very…
Art Up Close and Personal
…1 cm in area, indicating clearly that they were designed to be seen from very close range, such as when an individual was leaning down to snuff hallucinogenic powder….
The Image of the Shaman
…The carved figure on this tablet—which was used for snuffing hallucinogenic powder—is similar to one that appears in stone sculptures at Tiwanaku, as well as on other tablets…
The pictographs of Tambillo
…The Tambillo pictographs are found on the walls of eight small rock shelters distributed along some 300 meters of the narrow, dry bed of the upper Quisma Ravine,…
The story of chimango
…to offer her his love, but she spurned him. Yo’okalía returned time and time again to her hut, and eventually she was persuaded and promised to become his wife. Yo’okalía…
Settlement patterns
…of families probably lived together in semi-permanent camps or more stable villages wherever sufficient resources were available to support them—mainly places where fresh water was available by the sea, such…
The Fox and the Rabbit
…figure. He asked permission to pass, but when the figure did not respond, Rabbit approached it and slapped it angrily for not giving way. But Rabbit’s front paw stuck on…