﻿Vol.2] 
  THE 
  ARAUCANIANS 
  — 
  COOPER 
  709 
  

  

  We 
  can, 
  nevertheless, 
  trace 
  back 
  the 
  chiripa 
  among 
  the 
  Argentine 
  

   Araucanians 
  and 
  Mapuche-Huilliche 
  to 
  the 
  first 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  19th 
  cen- 
  

   tury 
  (D'Orbigny, 
  1835-47, 
  4:183; 
  Smith, 
  1855, 
  p. 
  184), 
  the 
  kopam 
  

   and 
  ekull 
  to 
  the 
  second 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  18th 
  (Molina, 
  1901, 
  p. 
  148), 
  the 
  

   makufi, 
  the 
  poncho 
  proper, 
  to 
  the 
  mid-17th. 
  (Marcgrav, 
  1648, 
  

   pp. 
  283-84, 
  woodcut, 
  p. 
  284; 
  cf. 
  Ovalle, 
  1888, 
  12:160; 
  Brouwer, 
  1892, 
  

  

  Figure 
  73. 
  — 
  Earliest 
  known 
  illustration 
  of 
  a 
  poncho 
  (Araucaniari) 
  . 
  (After 
  

  

  Marcgrav, 
  1648, 
  p. 
  284.) 
  

  

  p. 
  60.) 
  The 
  kepam 
  resembles 
  in 
  many 
  respects 
  the 
  woman's 
  garment 
  

   described 
  and 
  figured 
  by 
  Marcgrav 
  (ibid.). 
  It 
  is 
  in 
  Marcgrav 
  (ibid.), 
  

   too, 
  that 
  we 
  get 
  our 
  earliest 
  unmistakable 
  record, 
  not 
  only 
  in 
  Chile 
  

   but 
  in 
  South 
  America, 
  of 
  the 
  true 
  poncho 
  (fig. 
  73). 
  Montell 
  (1925; 
  

   1929, 
  pp. 
  238-244) 
  has 
  presented 
  strong 
  evidence 
  for 
  his 
  theory 
  that 
  

   the 
  true 
  poncho 
  as 
  distinct 
  from 
  the 
  widely 
  distributed 
  Andean 
  sleeve- 
  

   less 
  shirt, 
  was 
  a 
  Mapuche-Huilliche 
  invention, 
  and 
  has 
  suggested 
  that 
  

  

  