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Because of the absence of native villages, or of any other physical 

 cohesion in the Araucanian country, the term "area" is used to desig- 

 nate groups studied: Alepue area, Cofiaripe area, Panguipulli area, 

 Boroa area. An "area" includes several settlements — a settlement 

 consisting of a group of families formerly under the jurisdiction of 

 a cacique. In Alepue area, for example, such settlements are known 

 as Chan Chan, Mehuin, Maiquillahue, Pelluco, and Tringle. The areas 

 studied are v^ithin the provinces of Cautin and Valdivia, between 

 latitudes 40° S. and a little to the north of 39° S. 



The data for Part II were also collected by the writer with the 

 help of Margaret Mondloch as field assistant. We interviewed Arau- 

 canians while in residence in their country from November 195 1 to 

 February 1952. Our information was obtained primarily in Territory 

 Neuquen where the larger number of Araucanians live. Informants 

 lived in areas known as Quilaquina, Pilpil, Trumpul, Malleo, Collon 

 Cura (San Ignacio), and Lago Lolog. It is probably correct to say 

 that practically all Argentine Araucanians today live between latitude 

 41° and 36° S. and longitude 73° and 78° W. — a few families live 

 just north of this area, in the Province of Mendoza, and an occasional 

 family to the east and to the south. Territory Neuquen is bounded 

 on the north by the Colorado and Barrancas Rivers; on the west by 

 Chile ; on the south by Lake Nahuel Huapi and the Limay River ; on 

 the east by a line drawn due north from the village of Neuquen to the 

 Colorado River. (Cf. fig. 7.) 



A phonetic key to the Araucanian language is found in Appendix A. 

 Plants used by Araucanian informants of both Argentina and Chile 

 are found in Appendix B ; mammals, birds, fishes, and shellfishes, in 

 Appendix C. Throughout the text, for the sake of economy, the sci- 

 entific names have been omitted, but the reader can identify the various 

 plants and animals by referring to the appendices. 



The bibliography lists sources for both Chilean and Argentine Arau- 

 canians. It contains Cooper's sources (1946, vol. 2, p. 699), Brand's 

 bibliography (1941, vol. 5, pp. 20-22, 26-29), and all titles collected 

 by the writer in the libraries of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 

 Medellin ; the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Bogota ; the Museo 

 Nacional de Antropologia, Lima ; the Biblioteca Nacional de Santiago, 

 Chile ; the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile ; the 

 Universidad de Concepcion, Chile; and the Library of Congress of 

 the United States. 



