Welcome to the Yagán Region. Here you will find interesting information about this Chilean Indigenous People.
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In general, the forms of the baskets are similar, made oval and with handles, but the warps cause that they are different in his flexibility or rigidity, and the sealed thing or opening of his structure. The baskets were used by the women to transport resources that collected of the sea and the forest. In the beach they joined mejillones, mauchos and other seafood, and in the forest they collected fruits and fungus.La small and modest basketwork locks up a kindness message.
It means that those things that they collect, were not for their own consum, but for conserving, tranfering and distributing to the others groups.