…valleys that is a guardian spirit of animals and appears as a large guanaco that lives in the mountains. The practices and oral tradition of the Diaguita community of Chalinga,…
Horticultural-pastoralists of the arid north
In the highlands of the Arid North, in places such as the Tulan ravine and the Atacama salt flat, the pronged contact that human groups had with…
Language
…and agglutinative; its nouns can be verbalized and subjectivized to form complex words that can be equivalent to a whole phrase in English. Kawésqar vocabulary is rich with terms for…
Makemake the Creator
As told by Arturo Teao Tori Makemake was alone, and this was not good. He picked up a gourd filled with water and peered inside. Makemake’s reflection entered…
Art
…Traditional ceramic and textile arts are still practiced in some Quechua communities. Pottery is manufactured primarily for domestic use and includes large urns for storing food and drink, and…
Horticulturalists of the southern zone
…groups comes fromcemeteries, including one discovered during the construction of a highway bypass in the city of Temuco. According to this evidence, around 1100 A.D. the Pitrén gave way to…
History
…come from further north—that had mixed with the local indigenous population of these trans-Andean valleys. (It is important to note that the Colla people of Chile have no historic relation…
Art
…de piedra con figuras de llamas con formas humanas. El estilo de arte rupestre de este período, conocida como Taira-Tulán, se caracteriza por grabados de grandes representaciones de camélidos naturalistas…
Economy
…Quechua community economies vary by geographic zone. The Quechuas of Ollagüe and San Pedro primarily raise livestock and practice limited agriculture, as well as sometimes gathering wild plants and…
Agriculturalists of the South
…Vergel. Si bien no incluyeron animales domesticados en su economía, hay evidencias de que estos grupos transportaron guanacos en balsas a sus asentamientos insulares como en la Isla Mocha, lo…
Polynesian horticultural-fisher-gatherers
…Rapa Nui people became a society capable of carrying out large-scale, technically complex collective works. Their legacy includes huge ceremonial platforms, called ahus, upon which they erected great stone sculptures,…
Horticulturalists of the central zone
…though unlike their predecessors adopted ceramic making on a large scale. Over time, however, and especially after corn was introduced, groups such as the Llolleo became almost completely sedentary, although…
Hunter-gatherers of the Arid North
…the pampa, already completely arid, passing through foothill ravines to reach the Altiplano or Puna. These groups specialized in extracting the resources of the Andean upland meadows, especially when environmental…
Polynesian horticultural-fisher-gatherers
…Nui people became a society capable of carrying out large-scale, technically complex collective works. Their legacy includes huge ceremonial platforms, called ahus, upon which they erected great stone sculptures, moais,…
Agriculturalists of the Center
…also required communal activities such as irrigation works and greater control over the territory. Over time, these changes led to the emergence of a new cultural tradition, the Aconcagua, though…
Expedition of the Seven Explorers
…the turtle saw them, saw the seven coming this way, she followed them, walking through the sea. Ira and Raparenga reached Ovahe, they all arrived there and saw the sand—there…
El zorro y el cóndor (Animation, spanish)
…Animación en plasticina basada en una leyenda recogida en la localidad de Ayquina (II región, norte de Chile). El cuento, común a la narrativa tradicional de los andes sur,…
Marine fisher-hunter-gatherers of the Arid North
Given their already intimate knowledge of marine resources, the introduction of the fishhook prompted a major turning point in the lives of the marine hunter-gatherers of the…
Wünül: Concierto de pajaros
…interpretada por Üñumche: Hombre Pájaro, quien en un sueño recibió el don de comunicarse con las aves. Canto y poesía. Javiera Gallardo y Boris Muñoz / 33 minutos / 2008…
Bolsa – faja bordada
…cintas para amarrarse la bolsa a la cintura, realizadas con trenzado en torzal oblicuo, muy parecidas a las fajas de la época. Esta prenda de manufactura local combina la forma…