…characteristics with early communities in North-Central Chile and Northeastern Argentina, such as the use of the bridge handle, tapered bottle necks, and the crafting of plant and animal figures. But…
El otro lado de la cinta
…La música de este disco fue grabada con instrumentos indígenas americanos. Se utilizan timbres, ritmos y armonías propias de la estética musical americana, así como el uso ritual de…
Música para el nacimiento del agua
…Disco complementario al libro Ceremonias de Tierra y Agua (Castro, Varela et al. 1994). Contiene las músicas de la fiesta de Limpia Canales en Ayquina y Toconce, Alto Loa,…
Economy
…These coastal hunter-gatherer-fishers had a subsistence economy based on hunting, fishing and gathering of marine resources such as mollusks, fish, marine mammals and sea birds. They complemented their diet…
Social organization
…the church. Modern Aymara social organizations include urban associations created to assist highland residents who come to the city for a time, or to organize collective labor to help the…
Settlement patterns
…two complementary strategies for their movements: some groups of men or nuclear families may have migrated along the coast, establishing temporary camps at fishing sites and coves, while other groups…
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 woolen…
Beliefs and Funerary Practices
…Many of the festivities celebrated in Colla communities have been “reinvented” by recovering ancient Andean knowledge and practices and/or adopting celebrations promoted by State institutions, such as the Day…
Art
…smelting was introduced. The Mapuche combined these new techniques with their knowledge of metal sheetwork, traditionally used to manufacture copper jewelry. Over time, silver Mapuche jewelry became a central feature…
Audio
…housed in the Museum’s Audiovisual Archive, as well as a selection of unpublished recordings made by Museum researchers José Pérez de Arceand Claudio Mercadoin over 20 years of ethnomusicological work….
Lora: el baile de los Negros
…Este microdocumental busca retratar y representar el oficio del constructor de pitos o flautas. Los constructores reactualizan un oficio familiar enmarcado en una tradición cultural religiosa popular, pues participan…
Aquel Nguillatún
…de reconstrucción e imágenes de un Nguillatún que realiza una comunidad Mapuche para aplacar la furia de la naturaleza en las proximidades del lago Riñihue. Realización: Sergio Bravo. 1960-2000….
Story of the Forbidden Otter and the Great Flood
…stick, listen to what I was dreaming, that is why I am sending you to … do that… a coypu will come in and you shall kill it.” After he…
Entonación del Zurdo
…nombrada por don Chosto como La del Tarifeño. Toca Santos Rubio. casa de don Chosto, El Principal de Pirque, 2007. Este video forma parte de los fragmentos de archivos del…
Agriculturalists of the South
…a los grupos Pitrén de la porción más septentrional de su territorio a adoptar un modo de vida mucho más sedentario que en el pasado, desarrollándose la llamada cultura El…
Jarro polícromo zoomorfo
…cocción es bastante deficiente en comparación con la excelencia alcanzada en engobes y decoración. La vasija sugiere la representación de un felino, aunque faltan por erosión algunos elementos para definirlo,…
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,…
Kawashkar
…ceremony, while more mundane music focused on everyday activities and human sentiments. Both song and dance were extremely important in Kawashkar initiation rites, with each rite having its own song…
History
…spoke their native tongue and were only able to communicate with Spanish speakers through interpreters. Three decades later a ‘bilingual’ system was imposed on the group that made Spanish the…
History
…and the Atacama region became part of the Republic of Bolivia. The growth of trade and commerce led to the rapid development of the region, which was annexed by Chile…
The Son of the Canelo
…Once, while rubbing together two sticks, Alape discovered fire. His companion was very afraid and put out the fire, because he was not used to the heat. Alape made fire…
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…
Haciendo un casco andino
…fino hilado de fibra de camélido se envuelve una trama semiflexible compuesta de tallos de junco, que evoluciona en espiral en torno al armazón, al mismo tiempo que la va…
Environment and Location
…The indigenous communities of the Atacama Desert are not homogenous but consist of a number of separate cultures. The Atacameño communities live in the oases and valleys of the…