Image from page 378 of "Chile today and tomorrow" (1922) (14789482903)

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: uy provisions. The women are adepts at the loom,weaving beautiful ponchos or mantos, and boldly pat-terned and tinted rugs and saddle-cloths. Now andagain one meets in the streets of Temuco a group ofAraucanians with rugs for sale: there are two or threewomen and the male head of the family, who is cred-ited with doing no work but with careful shepherd-ing of his household. The women have a certain goodlooks; the faces are extraordinarily broad, pale bronzein hue, with a touch of red on the cheeks; the hair isstraight and black, plaited and bound with bright rib-bons. The dress consists of a fold of cloth woundround the waist and held in place by a gaily patternedbelt; a bodice, and a large shawl fastened with a bigsilver topo or pin. A wealthy woman will wear silverornaments across the forehead, in the ears and on theneck in addition to the almost indispensable topo, andno Araucanian will sell these adornments from the per-son, although in hard times they may be taken to thepawnshop. Text Appearing After Image: Araucanian Indian, Spinning.Note the solid wooden wheel of jBe (;ountry cart. 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.