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As plains dwellers, the Tehuelche were hardy drifters who wandered across the barren steppe dressed in the skins of the guanaco, the pretty, rust-coloured relative of the llama that inhabits the southern reaches of the Americas. The Tehuelche creation story is known as the Elal Cycle, after a heroic man-god who arrives in Patagonia from a “Big Island” on the back of a swan.
history, Elal, story, llama, people, Patagonia, Tehuelche creation