Chile | Studio portrait of a young Mapuche woman posed in front of a painted background of an outdoor scene; she wears a medella (coin-chain headdress), quipan (a square cloth, wrapped around the body), ikulla (shawl) or manta (blanket), chaway (earrings), tupu (clothes pin), trapelakucha (pectoral pendant) | ca. 1890. Traiguen, Araucania
themosthorror: ““Have you seen my son?” the woman frantically asked the old lady across the street. “No, sorry dear” the old woman replied.” the woman asked the local police officer, more terrified this time “No, I’m sorry.
"Señora Maria Vial de Prieto petting gaucho's horse "Prique," in a wheat field in Chile". Note: Although this photo's Library of Congress record says it is a gaucho, it is actually a huaso -- the term "gaucho" is not used in Chile.