Taha'l, cuna Selk'nam

Among the domestic utensils we may find baskets woven by the women, made of reeds using braids woven in a spiral.

Bags of sea lion leather were used to transport water and smaller ones were used to carry personal utensils during their travels, besides carrying the stones used to make sparks for fire and dried mushrooms, feathers for arrows, guanaco tendons and other instruments.

The Taha´l was a cradle used for transporting small children. It was made of oak and covered with a guanaco skin.

It was shaped like a small ladder and looked like the cradles used by the Aonikenk people. Over the ladder, made with two rods, about a meter long and 12 or 15 perpendicular, evenly spaced pegs, were layed delicate and finely tanned skins from the chulengo, young guanacos, forming a soft cushion to protect the child.

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