WHOLE VOL, ARAUCANIAN CHILD LIFE — HILGER 6l 



A headband, called trarulorjko, worn by women, has links of silver 

 disks dangling from the section above the forehead and/or temples 

 (pi. 55) ; disks number from 41 to 45. A traruloqko serves to keep the 

 hair back and also as an ornament. The Ibfalbfnstrowe (pi. 55, 2), 

 a woven band with sections of silver studs, is merely ornamental. 

 Total lengths of Ibfalbfnatrowe varied from 27 to 35 inches. Un- 

 studded sections are wound around bunches of hair. An occasional 

 adult man or woman or young woman today wears a ring made from 

 a 20-centavo Chilean coin ; many young men wear them. 



According to Cooper's sources there was not much face or body 

 painting until more recent times, when face painting was not uncom- 

 mon (1946, p. 711). During the present study young women were 

 seen occasionally with cheeks slightly rouged ; in general, these 

 women had been employed in Chilean families. Aside from this, there 

 was no body painting. 



Brown is the accepted proper skin color. "It is the Mapuche color ; 

 Chileans could not be brown, if they wanted to be ; neither could you, 

 you were born white. Are the Mapuche in North America dark- 

 skinned too ?" 



Every Araucanian man and woman is proud of a nose if it is like 

 the bill of the bandurria, "like the nose of a Mapuche should be." It 

 is like a Roman nose with a decided flare of the nostrils. (Cf. pis. 

 23, 24.) As previously stated (p. 20) no Araucanian is proud 

 of a low hairline. Adults are known to pluck hairs in order to raise 

 the hairline. The writer saw boys doing so to each other at school ; 

 girls also. Those who live in localities where Chileans predominate 

 not infrequently shave the forehead to heighten the hairline. Non-- 

 Araucanian herbalists in all areas had been asked for depilatories to 

 remove the hair on the forehead. 



Instances such as the following indicated that informants were 

 conscious of their personal appearance : A young man arranged to 

 have a picture taken of himself, "but not until tomorrow." The next 

 day he appeared well dressed except for a hat. He obtained a hat, 

 which any man may borrow from the teacher when he must go where 

 Chileans are, and posed for his picture, making certain that the hat 

 was properly tilted and that the corners of a fancy handkerchief he 

 had tucked into his breast pocket showed. He moved his feet about 

 until they were in the desired position, looked into the camera, and said 

 with satisfaction, "Bueno!" When he saw the picture (pi. 26, 5), 

 he was pleased, but remarked that he looked rather well fed. On 

 another occasion, wanting a picture of a kapam (dress worn by 

 women), I asked a young woman to remove her apron so the kapam 



