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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN PATAGONIA |
OVERLOADING THE BURDEN BEARER IN PATAGONIA |
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| The Tehuelche Indians of Patagonia are in personal appearance not greatly different from some of the Indian tribes of the northern continent. There is the same love of bright colors and the same skill in weaving them harmoniously into cheerful cloths | These three smiling savages are Tehuelches, the sons of a Patagonian cacique, or chief. Their country is said to derive its name from the "big feet" of its aborigines, who have little excuse for foot development, in so far as they are seldom off the back of a horse, and are amongst the most expert riders of the continent, fearless and dextrous in the use of the lasso and the bolas |