Southern Cone
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 358 objects associated with the Southern Cone region of South America. These date from 1880 to 1978 and represent the Tehuelche and Mapuche peoples. This collection comprises 300 objects from Chile, 56 objects from Argentina and two from Paraguay. It includes silver jewellery, furniture, domestic artefacts and bombillas, or filtered drinking straws. The collection also contains ritual apparatus, hunting equipment, baskets, gourd containers, textiles, crafts, souvenirs, and archaeological finds including ceramics, stone, bone and shell tools. This archaeological material accounts for almost half of the collection. The provenance of this is largely unknown, with the exception of two assemblages: one comprising 23 objects from a site near Antofagasta in Northern Chile, donated in 1908 by William Gaw, and another from a site near Pichals Point between Junin and Pessagna, donated in 1907 by Dr JW Sutherland. Other material includes a fine collection of the silverware crafted by the Mapuche people from the Araucania region of Chile, and a hunting kit belonging to one of the now extinct aboriginal peoples of Tierra del Fuego. The Southern Cone represents the southernmost region of South America, below the Tropic of Capricorn. It encompasses Uruguay and parts of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil.
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