WHOLE VOL. ARAUCANIAN CHILD LIFE — HILGER QfJ 



again called, "See, there is a flood coming!" The people wondered what should 

 be done — they noticed the river was rising — at least so they thought. The man 

 suggested that they make a qillatun. So they began to make preparations to 

 hold one. This man then was the leader in the rjillatun. He was well treated; 

 he ate and drank to satiety. When the qillatun was over, he hurried to the river, 

 moved the sapling back toward the shore, and told the people to take notice how 

 the water had subsided. This is a true story ; my father told it to me as a true 

 story. 



Smoking is a recreational habit today for both men and women — 

 never for children, not even in early adolescence. According to a loo- 

 year-old Cofiaripe man, it has always been indulged in by adults, at 

 least as far back as he could remember. According to Cooper's sources 

 it is something rather recent (1946, p. 741). Pipes were smoked in 

 the early days. They were made of stone, clay, and wood (Cooper, 

 1946, p. 741). An informant showed the bowl of a pipe of stone that 

 had been plowed up in the Cordillera. The Museo Araucano de 

 Temuco exhibits leaves of maqui and leaves and stems of papa silvestre 

 (wild potato) as a mixture that was smoked. 



During the present study mature men smoked decidedly more often 

 than did women and young men. Chilean cigarettes were smoked by 

 those who could afford to buy them, often after drinking yerba mate. 

 Informants generally made their own by rolling into paper of any 

 kind crushed leaves of maqui and/or finely shaved stalk of maqui 

 mixed with crushed leaves of tiaca or of filuponii (unidentified ; prob- 

 ably wild potatoes). In Boroa area cultivated tobacco was finely cut 

 and mixed with maqui. An old Cofiaripe informant thought it un- 

 wise to smoke when one's body is heated either from work or from 

 the sun — at 3 o'clock one afternoon he would not smoke the cigarettes 

 offered him. 



MUSIC, DANCES, SONGS 



Traditional Araucanian musical instruments in use today are the 

 pifalka (whistle) (pi. 32, 2-4, 6), the trutruka (wind instrument) 

 (pi. 32, 7), the kultrur) (drum) (pi. 30, /), the wada (rattle), and the 

 kullkull and the kuijkul (bugles) (pi. 12, /). None of these was 

 being used for recreational purposes, unless it was the pifglka, which 

 an occasional umpire used during a football game, probably because 

 no other whistle was available. The pifalka, trutruka, and kultrui] are 

 used at the rjillatun; the kultrur) and the wada, at the machitun. 

 Cooper's sources (1946, p. 738) give, in addition to the above instru- 

 ments, a basketry rattle, a flute made of Chusquea sp., a small sort 

 of panpipe or "mouth organ" (pi. 32, 5, 7, 8), and a musical bow. 

 None of these was seen during the present study. 



