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of the Universidad de Concepcion; Carlos Oliver Schneider, Director 

 of the Museo de Concepcion; and Elena de Cerda, Curator of the 

 Museo Araucano de Temuco. 



I am indebted, too, to Father Gustave Weigel, SJ., of the Universi- 

 dad Catolica de Santiago, the late Beatrice Bergan of the United 

 States Embassy in Santiago, and the late Raquel Tajeda Lawrence, 

 a native of Chile, for investigations made, while I was still in the 

 United States, as to the feasibility of making the study; to Mother 

 Cornelia and her Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Villa 

 Maria Academy, Dr. and Mrs. John Bauerle, and Dr. and Mrs. Luis 

 Asenjo, all of Santiago, for assistance and gracious hospitality during 

 the month's preliminary work in contact making and in museum and 

 library studies in Santiago. 



I wish to thank Araucanian informants in Argentina — men, women, 

 and children — who contributed so graciously and generously to the 

 present study. Their names are found in the "List of Informants." 

 To Kolupan (80 or more years old) I express special appreciation and 

 gratitude for his reliability and integrity, and for his insistence on 

 accuracy. 



I owe special thanks, too, for all phases of the study in Argentina, 

 but especially for those of interpretation, to Bertha Ilg-Koessler and 

 Lisa Pfister, and to Sister Gerena who came from Alepue in the Arau- 

 canian country of Chile to interpret for us. Without their assistance it 

 would have been exceedingly difficult to make the study in Argentina, 

 owing to the political situation there. 



For the selection of informants, introduction to areas, use of local 

 museum collections, transportation, and valuable basic information, 

 I owe a debt of gratitude to staff members of the Intendencia de 

 Parque Nacional de Lanin (San Martin de los Andes), especially 

 Carlos Bressler, Intendente; to Jaroslav ("Saiko") Swaryczewski of 

 the Division de Bosques; and to Sergio Shajovscoi, Enginiero Fores- 

 tal. For general information on many points, I acknowledge my obli- 

 gation to the late Father Ludovico Pernisek, Salesian missionary to 

 the Araucanians. 



For transportation, hospitality, and assistance in contacting in- 

 formants in Argentina, I am deeply grateful to Bertha Ilg-Koessler, 

 her husband Dr. Rudolf Koessler, and their daughter Lola; to Mr. 

 and Mrs. Guy Dawson; to Ernesto Pfister and his wife Lisa — all of 

 San Martin de los Andes. For assistance in various ways the writer 

 thanks Alaydee V. de Pastoriza (Ouilaquina) ; Genevieve Dawson 

 Terruggi (La Plata) ; Francis and Mary O'Grady, and Horacio 



