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| Chilean pine
(Araucaria araucana) and Volcan Lonquimay (2890m) in the Reserva
Malal Cahuello, Región de la Araucania , southern Chile. |
Late nineteenth
century family group photograph of a Mapuche grandmother with her children
and grandchildren. |
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| Toqui Lautaro,
the Mapuche warrior leader who defeated the Spaniards in the battle of Mariquenu
in 1554. |
Wood mask
used in Mapuche ceremony of Nguillatun. The masks are often representations
of friends or enemies. |
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| Small figures
on a Mapuche silver pectoral pendant worn by women as part of their traditional
dress. |
Mapuche weaving
on loom. (From the Museo Regional de la Araucania, Temuco). |
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| Mapuche mother
and children outside their thatch and wood ruca home. The girl wears
traditional dress with a silver pectoral pendant. |
Weaving is
done by the Mapuche women on looms in their rucas. They still use
mostly natural mineral and vegetable dyes. |
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| Interior of
traditional Mapuche ruca home. Items of basketware hang from the
roof. |
Mapuche girl
spinning sheep's wool. She is wearing traditional dress and a silver pectoral
pendant. |
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| Traditional
Mapuche silver: a headband - trarilonko, a pectoral pendant - prenteor
or trapelacucha, and clothes pin - tupu or topu |
Mapuche woman
prepares maté tea on the fire in the family ruca home. A loom
with weaving is in the background. |
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| A
Mapuche drum or kultrun, made of laurel or canelo wood, and
cow or goat skin. The canelo or Winter's Bark Drimys Winteri is the
Mapuche sacred tree. |
Horse
drawn carts are widely used in Mapuche communities for transport.
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