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![Two sepia-toned old portraits of Mapuche people. The image on the left, attributed to ‘Valck e hijo’ [Valck and son] in Valdivia, Chile shows an old man with copious silver hair sitting outside, wearing a traditional poncho as well as spurred riding boots and a wide-brimmed hat is visible on the floor. The background is blurred. The image on the right is of a group of three women and a child preparing food on the floor of a photographer’s studio. They are identified as ‘indios araucanos’ [Araucanian Indians] from ‘Traiguen, South America, Chile’ in the text at the bottom of the image and the photograph is attributed to Gustavo Milet. There is a gnarled, dead tree trunk in the middle of the image, straw on the ground and a screen in the backgrounds depicts a hazy natural environment including a classical plinth.](https://cdn.london-press.manifoldapp.org/store/resource/5/1/c/51cea099-14d7-4866-950e-f719517d8282/attachment/medium-6b414006b3fbd7634ae2c9fd0b9ec775.jpg)
Figure 13.3
Left: Mapuche Longko [chief], photograph by Fernando Maximiliano Valck Wiegand, Santiago de Chile, 1880. Right: Mapuche women and child preparing food, posing against screen, Gustavo Milet Ramírez’s studio, Traiguen, Chile, ca. 1900.
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- creatorFernando Maximiliano Valck Wiegand (left); Gustavo Milet Ramírez's studio (right)
- creditMuseo Histórico Nacional, Santiago de Chile. Collection no.Fb-4363 (left); Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden, the Netherlands. Collection Wereldmuseum, no. RV-A299-14
- rights holderMuseo Histórico Nacional, Santiago de Chile (left); Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (right)