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Mapuches:

The Mapuche were farmers, growing corn, potatoes, chili, beans, squash, etc..
They used the tent as a home that transported from one place to another. They slept on sheepskins.Fluke and wore a poncho, and used as footwear leather boots. The women combed their hair with two long braids and covered with blankets subject to the waist with colored sashes.
The balls used asweapons, who had tied at the waist, the sling and the spear of several meters, which at the time of conquest used against the Spanish, especially after the adoption of the horse. As defensive weapons used adoublet of rawhide, a kind of helmet of the same material and shield.
Their language, Mapuche, was imposed to all the indigenous past.

religion
While the idea of a supreme being is the result ofChristian influence today still celebrate pagan festivals including wonderful respecting their ancient beliefs, the most famous of which is "Nguillatún" where prayers are addressed to "Nguenechén"God of the Mapuches, "own people". In its development performed various rites among which the dance called loncomeo, one of whose figures is the Choique purrun, in which the dancers imitate themovements of treile. And it is essential the intervention of the "machi", "shaman" or "medical".

Indigenous musical instruments
The inhospitable climate, the struggle to survive in this land covered bysnow for months give the music a plaintive character where passion is cruel and hopeless. Passion can not be expressed even by crying or love. Hence the simplicity of their musical instruments and themusic is araucana complaint and distress.
They used various musical instruments: cultrun, trutruca, pifilca, Ñorquin, quinquer-Cahue, or Araucanian violin.

cultrun:
Drum made of hollowed piece ofwood, shaped like a drum. It is lined with a fine horsehide stretched.
He played with a single stick whose handle is decorated with colored thread.

pifilca:
It's a flute constructed of wood or...