|
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»
|