…A long time ago, in Mapuche territory, an enormous serpent rose up from the sea and began crying, kai, kai, kai, louder and louder, shriller and shriller. The serpent’s…
Art
…of the relief images. These pigments may have also been used from early times in body painting, a practice that was common at the time of first contact with Europeans….
Arid North
…the port of Loa. The port of Arica became a hub for goods imported from Europe and central Chile, and over time it grew into a multicultural place inhabited by…
The devils`tale
…strangers. One of the young men asked: —What time is mass? And one of the strangers answered: —In the afternoon. So the young men returned home. A few hours later…
Culto y Funebria
…intermediate spirits, and mythical ancestors. Their most important ceremonies at that time included complex rites of passage, such as adult initiation in which symbolic body painting played a central role….
The story of the Shepherdess
…meat, but the shepherdess does not want it and pushes it away. The condor takes flight once more, and this time he leaves the meat on the remains of a…
Settlement pattern
…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 the…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…The burial practices of these hunter-gatherers varied, especially over the long period of time in which they occupied the territory. From the beginning, however, these groups usually buried their…
History
…with other relatively contemporary South American populations, such as the PaleoIndian groups of Patagonia and the Las Vegas complex in Ecuador. In addition, the similarities between certain stone instruments used…
Organización Social
…but still with no clear class distinctions. At the same time, however, the large number of shared cultural features indicates that, despite local variations, all of these groups can be…
Arte
…more elaborate items such as jugs in the form of animals, plants (squash) or humans. Also appearing at this time were the first asymmetric vessels, known as Ketru Metawe or…
The Fox and the Rabbit
…as it was night time, he added, “go and get the cheese from the lake.” So Fox dove into the lake, but could not remove the cheese, because it was…
Arte
…or yellow background. Polychromatic iconography in ceramics also took hold at this time. With mollusk shells they manufactured pendants, recipients, and tablets, tubes and spatulas for the ingestion of hallucinogenic…
Marine hunter-gatherers
…At almost the same time that the terrestrial hunter-gatherer way of life emerged inland, along Chile’s extensive coastline other groups relied on the coastal environment as their main…
A tale of two brothers
…what the wizard tells him, but with every attempt, the animals fall into a deep ravine and die. The man tries many times, and each time he has to buy…
Social organization
…Christian era, forming larger family groups in which certain individuals with special skills probably enjoyed an enhanced social status. Thus, around the time of contact with Europeans—and largely through the…
Arte
…of hands. Despite their simplicity, these paintings show variation over time in the colors used. While red, black, and white were common throughout the range, in some regions yellow and…
Economía
…Although hunting and gathering were vital to the Llolleo people’s subsistence from the beginning, over time the cultivation of crops such as maize and quinoa became more important, giving…
Story of the Forbidden Otter and the Great Flood
…Narrated by José Tonko Wide (Kstákso) Puerto Edén, 1975 A long time ago, while his father….was out hunting otters and birds, a young man went out after him to…
Social organization
…larger groups based in semi-permanent camps located mostly in resource-rich locations. At times, several different groups that maintained relations through political alliances and kinship ties would meet for a time….
Culto y Funebria
…remains of several bodies. These sites were occupied for an extended period of time, probably up to the first millennium of the present age. In all these different forms of…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…deceased individuals were officials or authorities of that State. Also found in graves of this time period were ceramic vessels, mostly in the Cabuza style but with the forms and…
History
…they hunted on the Puna allowed these groups to domesticate these animals, a process that eventually led to a completely new and distinct way of life: pastoralism. Over time, the…
Patrón de Asentamiento
…The early inhabitants of Patagonia were highly mobile and ranged freely over hundreds of kilometers, taking advantage of both the open woodland and the steppe environments. They returned time…