Interesting facial features of Yaghan Indians

Steve, your posts show you have quite an inquiring mind, my congratulations !!!!


The Yaganes are said to be completely exinguished nowadays... Out of the five diferent nations that lived in Tierra del Fuego (the Tehuelches or Aonikenk, the Selk'nam or Onas, the Haush or Manekenk, the Alakaluf or Kaweskar and the Yamana or Yagan) they were the shortest af them all (something around 5 feet tall) and in fact they were the ones who lived far south and in the worst weather conditions... since they spent most of their lives fishing from their canoes (they were extremely good sailors and fishermen !) they had powerfull torso, arms and shoulders, but their legs were quite weak, in fact they walked in a rather clumsy and feeble way ...

More pictures of the Yamanas (or Yagan)

Thanks SSGraves and Martín for a most informative post. One of the best in this Forum.
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Read somewhere that they kept a small fire burning in their canoes to keep warm. As these pics show they wore few clothes.

Would like to visit Isla Navarino some day.

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Originally posted by HUNTS:
Read somewhere that they kept a small fire burning in their canoes to keep warm. As these pics show they wore few clothes.
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That's true !!

They used to keep a small fire in their canoes (on a sand plataform) since with out any source of heath the risk of freezing was high ... they were people that could stand cold freezing weather muuuuch better than most of us, but these pictures (the ones who showed them naked or with bare clothes) were surely taken in "summer" time ... some other pics show them covered with furs

An example of their cold weather clothing

And here is where they spent much of their time in ...

Are the skins those of LLama or guanaco or which camelid?

My first girl friend! How did you find her? Martin, don't tell her that I will be back.

This is one of the surprise that is waiting you in the patagonia, eh,eh, but dont worry, they are fully in love with you, they will give you a premiun welcome........ they will not eat you, just will love you in all native ways until you be exausted, may be Mr. Graves wants to join you in this life time experience.Regards and a warm hug both ; "Guillermo"(The dangerous brother of Dr. Pozzi)

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Originally posted by SGraves155:
Are the skins those of LLama or guanaco or which camelid?

The ones of the picture I m quite sure are of guanaco... certainly some of their clothes were made from furs of guanacos, but mainly of sea creatures as sea lions (fur seals)

These people spend most of their time at sea, in fact their whole way of life was closely related to the sea

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Originally posted by billinthewild:
My first girl friend! How did you find her? Martin, don't tell her that I will be back.

Well, to be your first love she must surely have some (well) hidden atributes then !!!

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Originally posted by Afrikaander:

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Originally posted by billinthewild:
My first girl friend! How did you find her? Martin, don't tell her that I will be back.

Well, to be your first love she must surely have some (well) hidden atributes then !!!

No, it was the make up.....