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Silversmithing

The dual organization of the Mapuche Worldview influences also in the material demostration of silverware. It explore two diferent worlds: the woman one, support of the symbolic Mapuche speech, in which the Ad Mapu tradition hides, through the written worldview in the forms and contents drawn in the silverware; and the masculine one, personified herness of the horse that represent the sumission of shapes and Huinka contents to the dominant Mapuche descendents.

«In Argentina, the Mapuche people say, that Moon, after a great argument with the Sun, spilled its tears, that were so hot that they became silver. The Mapuche people then picked them and took care of them through all the wonderful and magical forms of silversmithing»

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Source: "Theatrical Desing of the ChileanTradicional Costume", and "Silversmithing" by Sergio Soto Ortiz
http://www.uchile.cl/cultura/mapa/Artsamapuche/plateria.htm

Source: "The moon's tears" by Carlos Martínez Sarasola
http://www.proa.org/exhibicion/transicion/mapuche/textos.html
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