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the color. When the color satisfied her she flipped the chips off with 

 her bare hand, lifted the yarn out with the stick, and hung the skeins 

 on a wire hook suspended from the fire raft in such a position that they 

 drained into the decoction in the kettle below. Later she wrung the 

 skeins by hand into the kettle beneath. She had two more skeins 

 to dye. These she put into the kettle, added more chips and enough 

 water to fill the kettle. While waiting for these to dye, she told how 



Table 6. — Colors obtained from native plants (Chile) 



Color 

 Orange-yellow 



Plant 



.Bark of michai (machai, Berberis dar- 

 zvinii or B. vulgaris) 



Red-brown Dry gray moss (not identified) 



Brown Bark of ulmo (qulqu, Eucryphia cordi- 



folia) 



Gray-brown Twigs of temu (Temu divaricatum) 



added to nalca (qalka, Gunnera 

 scabra) 



Lead-gray Any of the following : 



(a) Twigs and leaves of petra 



(piitra, Myrceugenia planipes) 



(b) Bark of olivillo (tiike, Aextoxi- 



con punctatum) 



(c) Roots of nalca 



(d) Twigs of chakaiwa (Berberis 



darmnii) 



(e) Twigs of fuscia (chillko, Fuch- 



sia macrostemma) 



Pujrple-gray Bark of nalca and olivillo 



Red Relbun (riilfan kachu, Galium chilense) 



only when mixed with commercial 



red dye 

 Black Roots of chakaiwa 



Remarks 



Shrub found in dry land on hills 

 and in open spaces. "It makes 

 pretty stripes in lamas and de- 

 signs in choapinos." 



Found on fence rails. 



"Use bark of old trees for dark 

 brown; of young trees for light 

 brown." 



Temu grows in moist ravines. 



A favorite color for ponchos. 

 Grows in deep swamps. 



Favorite color for ponchos. 



"It takes less commercial red dye 

 if relbun is used with it. Relbun 

 grows on the edges of brooks." 



to dye for other colors. "If I were dyeing yellow, I would chop the 

 roots of michai into small pieces and boil the yarn with them, just as 

 I am doing now. If I wanted to brighten the yellow color, I would 

 add the leaves of canelo; canelo leaves would also prevent the color 

 from fading out. When I want to dye red or green, I use commercial 

 dyes. When I want to dye yarn in commercial red, I boil the yarn 

 in canelo leaves first and then in the dissolved red dye. For commer- 

 cial green, I boil the yarn with leaves of laurel comun first, and then 

 in the dissolved green dye. Doing it this way brings the colors out 



