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Chilean Aboriginal Cultures in the Pre-columbian Museum

[By Erika Brandner in Santiago de Chile]

Pre-columbian Art Museum and other heritage Buildings in the Montt Varas Square Santiago Chile

PRE-COLUMBIAN ART MUSEUM

This post takes us back in the past. To those hundreds of years before the arrival of the Spaniards, a time that poetically can be named “CHILE BEFORE CHILE”. This name wasn’t invented by me, it is been used by the Pre-Columbian Art Museum of Santiago, to speak about our ancestors, the inhabitants of South America before the Spaniards conquer.

The PRE-COLUMBIAN ART MUSEUM is located in the heart of the historical and foundational center of Santiago de Chile and in front of a newly opened civic square called “Montt Varas”, in honor of the former president Manuel Montt and the minister Antonio Varas. In the following sketch you can see the square and three of the four heritage buildings that surround it:


* EX NATIONAL CONGRESS (left)
* MUSEUM OF PRE-COLUMBIAN ART (in the background)
* PALACE OF JUSTICE (right)
* LARRAÍN ZAÑARTU PALACE  (outside of the drawing because it was behind me)


HISTORY OF THE PRE-COLUMBIAN MUSEUM BUILDING :
This palace was built in 1555 as the house of the first mayor of Santiago.  After that it was a college of the Society of Jesus, the "Palace of the Royal Customs", the “National Library" and the “Headquarters of the Courts of Justice" to end being the actual museum.

ARCHITECTURE
The architectural style of this mansion corresponds to the Neoclassical style and was carried out on the basis of plans developed by Italian architect Joaquín Toesca, who likewise designed the Chilean Presidential Palace, the “Moneda Palace”.

Pre-columbian Museum Neoclassical Facade and architectural details

ORIGIN OF THE MUSEUM COLLECTION

The chilean architect Sergio Larraín Garcia Moren, although known for introducing the vanguard in the Santiago urbanism, had a passion to rescue the cultural uniqueness of American aboriginal cultures. He felt that in the art of these ancient people there was a message of humanity, so he began to collect pre-Columbian art pieces. After his dead his family approved the donation of the pieces to build a museum.

PRE-COLUMBIAN ART PIECES FROM CENTRAL CHILE
As a tour guide I work mainly in the central area of Chile. That means the capital Santiago, the harbor Valparaiso and the sorrounding vineyards. I hardly knew about the aboriginal art of this area. It seems unimportant in comparison to the art of the great American cultures, to the mapuche silver jewelry, to the northern diaguita pots or the south Selknam myth with the gost with the painted bodies. So I decided to spend a time making a visual study and try to find something exciting about my ancestors.

Chile and the Central Region Cultures

“CHILE BEFORE CHILE” MUSEUM ROOM:

The Museum has a special area dedicated to the chilean precolumbian art (it has pieces of art from the hole central and south America) This chilean room is called "CHILE BEFORE CHILE".  With my sketchbook and my pen I began to make sketces of pieces and written information. I made this timeline (I love history timelines):

Central Area Pre-columbian Cultures Timeline

It starts 18000 years bC. Archaic hunter-gatherers appeared 11500 years bC. And 9500 years BC the first culture, the “Tagua Taguas”. Much later the "BATO CULTURE” (1000 BC to 200 A.D.) occupied the coastal areas, the valleys and part of the mountain range. As nomads with a strong tradition of hunting they made ceramic smokepipes, stone or ceramic earrings as body decoration. Its ceramic vessels were decorated with dotted incisions.

In the same period but in other places of the central area lived the "LLOLLEO CULTURE” (1000 BC to 200 A.D). They were more settled and cultivated Corn and Quinoa. They also exploited the resources of the sea through fishing, hunting marine mammals and shellfishes. As jewelry they made beaded necklaces in stone and in some cases in metal. Its ceramic vessels had human or vegetable forms and were decorated with geometric motifs and red paint.

Diferent pre-columbian art pieces from Llolleo - Bato - Aconcagua and Inca Cultures

The “ACONCAGUA CULTURE" (1000 to 1400 A.D.) was the basis of a population that the Spaniards called PICUNCHES and were descendants of the Batos and the Llolleos. They lived in villages in the lower part of the Aconcagua river, in the Maipo and Mapocho river basin and in the northern part of the Cachapoal river. They were organized in families, each with a head of their own. They practiced agriculture and cultivating corn, quinoa, beans and pumpkins. They also collected wild fruits and hunted. The groups that lived on the coast fished and hunted marine species. Its ceramics consisted in pots, jugs, plates and jars orange colored and with black painted geometric figures. They manufactured flutes and stonebadges that were used by the authorities.

The Aconcagua were conquered by the "Inka” or Incas that came from Peru. In the early XVI, in the Spanish Colonial Period all of them disappeared.

The Museum Shop

The Pre-Columbian Museum Shop is small but well achieved, with a variety of fine products on display and side tables to sit down for a coffee in the middle of the courtyard of the palace. I made this sketch to draw the hustle and bustle of the place. To the left a large row of tourists waiting to enter the museum.

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