Mapuche culture

flags of the Mapuche people

thumb|250px|Wooden statues or '''''' ('wooden person', from Mapuche 'people' and 'wood') are Mapuche statues made of wood used to signal the grave of a deceased person.

thumb|250px|Cultrun. Museo Azzarini collection. The cultrun (from , and ) is a percussion instrument used by the Mapuche in Chile and Argentina.

thumb|150px|The Guñelve The Guñelve (), sometimes known as the Star of Arauco, is a symbol from Mapuche iconography which can be described as an octagram (or a star with eight points) in saltire.

thumb|right|250px|Reconstruction of a dalca in the museum of Dalcahue. The dalca or piragua is a type of canoe employed by the Chonos, a nomadic indigenous people of southern Chile, and Huilliche people living in Chiloé archipelago. It was a light boat and ideal for navigating local waterways, including between islands of the Chiloé Archipelago, through the Chacao Channel to mainland Chile, and along the coast of the Gulf of Penas. Spanish chronicles called it best-suited for those waters, far superior to ships of the conquistadores.

a traditional Mapuche house type

The Pifilca or Pivilca (Mapudungun language: onomatopoeia of its sound) is an aerophone of the flute family, a ductless flute, similar to a whistle. It is a typical instrument of the Mapuche people, and it is spread from central Chile to the Argentine provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén in Patagonia.