Image from page 378 of "Chile today and tomorrow" (1922) (14769284772)

Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Araucanian Indian, Spinning.Note the solid wooden wheel of jBe (;ountry cart. Text Appearing After Image: Araucanian Mother and Child. The hide-and-wood cradle is slung upon the womans back when she goesoutside the hut. NATIVE RACES OF CHILE 319 Racial purity amongst these survivors is not to beexpected. There had been a considerable mixture ofblood between North, South, and the transandinegroups before the Spanish entry, brought about notonly by wars and migrations, but by the custom pre-vailing among the indigenous folk of Central Chile ofseeking wives outside the tribe. During the colonialperiod numbers of white women were systematicallyseized and held by the Indians, the resulting admixtureof blood accounting for the comparatively blond strainseen in some of the Araucanian families. Correspondingly, there was a certain absorption ofnative blood into the Spanish towns and settlements,Indian girls and children having passed into the pos-session of the Europeans from time to time: but racialtraits have in both cases yielded a great deal to envi-ronment, and the mixed-blood youth of the S Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.