…Tejido de urdimbre complementaria, bordado en puntada de tallo sobre algodón y flecadura por torsión (borlas), fibra de camélido. El motivo central de esta bolsa es un personaje antropomorfo…
Historia
…discoid stones suggests cultural relations with other groups that inhabited the Pacific coast of South America at roughly the same time and who inhabited sites such as the Huentelauquén complex…
Art
…black and very finely polished. Common pieces include pukos or bowls, pots, round pitchers, jars and cups, some of them decorated with abstract images of human faces or geometric patterns…
Language
…The Aymara language belongs to the jaqi family. It is polysynthetic and agglutinative, with a tendency to employ suffixes. It is both complex and regular, using compound words where…
Culto y Funebria
…These southern inland hunters buried their dead in a variety of ways. The most common type of burial is that of the steppe peoples of historic times, who placed…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…can be traced back to the Chinchorro culture and the Huentelauquén complex. Within this belief system, ancestor worship seems to hold a special place. In pre-Hispanic times the dead were…
History
…European and local mestizo settlers was facilitated by restricting local indigenous inhabitants to small plots of communally held land. The direct consequences of this process for Mapuche society included a…
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…
Agricultural-pastoralists of the arid north
…North of what is now Chile became increasingly complex economically and socially, a process that would change their way of life from horticultural-pastoralist to agricultural-pastoralist. This development would reach its…
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,…
Language
…know about this language, as it disappeared quickly after the Spanish conquest, according to historians. Present-day Diaguita communities in Chile speak Spanish only. According to scholar Ricardo Latcham, surnames ending…
Environment and Geography
…The present-day Diaguita people are located in in the Huasco and Choapa river valleys of Chile’s Norte Chico region, where they have officially constituted as indigenous communities, based on…
Social Organization Depicted on a Gourd
…trajes en forma de escudo y otros cinco llevan lo que parecen ser corazas de cuero, uno de los cuales sostiene un hacha en la mano. El personaje restante combina…
Toasting, Inka Style
…in the community as a permanent reminder of the community’s new inalterable relation of power with the Inka State. The kero cups embedded in the mud walls of the monumental…
History
…included communities as far away as the Atacama Desert, where similar ceremonial practices were already in use. In fact, these two peoples shared a common ritual language that enabled the…
Historia
…In many ways, the Las Ánimas groups broke with the past to begin a new cultural tradition. The formerly common tembetás or lip adornments of the El Molle culture…
Paño: inkuña
…en la iconografía religiosa de las culturas contemporáneas del altiplano peruano-boliviano, como Pucara y Chiripa. Comparte con los tejidos tempranos andinos, el rasgo técnico de encadenar las orillas finales de…
Social Organization
…Traditional Colla society is organized on the basis of family and friendship ties among people living in the same locality. With the official constitution of indigenous communities under Indigenous…
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…
A tale of two brothers
…sees that his poor brother has returned as wealthy as he is, he asks him how he has become so rich—did he come by it honestly or steal it? He…
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…
The petroglyphs of Kalina
Eight kilometers south of Alero de Taira is the archeological site of Calina Oeste, an open-air campcontaining the remains of several circular stone-walled dwellings. The camp’s former…
Taparrabo o porta bebé listado
…Tejido en faz de urdimbre, fibra de camélido. Los taparrabos de la época son rectangulares o levemente trapezoidales, confeccionado de una sola pieza o en dos paños como este…
By pass Temuco: Ta iñ newentumun
…La construcción de carretera de alta velocidad en la ciudad de Temuco (sur de Chile) y sus efectos sobre comunidades mapuches. Un reflejo del dilema modernidad-desarrollo versus el costo…