Material or technique:
Silver
Collection:
Mapuche Culture
An oblong object worn by women. The top is formed by eleven white, red and blue beads to which three silver tubes are attached, followed by nine intertwined blue and red beads, another three silver tubes and another nine intertwined blue and red beads. These are joined by a cotton thread to a silver oval which, in its center, has a smelted silver figure of a woman giving birth. The oval has engravings and four silver chollol (bells) hang from it.
