Machi (healer with drum)

Mapuche religious festival of ngillatun, its participants pray for the sun or, on the contrary, for rain

A column called Rehue, a machi healer runs up, drums and heals, Rehue is a "badge" in front of the machi hut, so everyone knows that a healer lives here (smoking, incantations or herbs)

Old Rehue, built on the grave of a dead machi

An indigenous family in Chile (1969-1973)

Grave cleaning (Chile), the older the grave, the more it is valued (1969-1973)

Serafina Varra's family in front of the ruca (traditional Mapuche house type)

Mapuche mother and daughter

Mapuche school (1969-1973), boys wear sandals made of tyres, girls either barefoot or in plastic shoes

Senior class (girls about 14 years old), Chile (1969-1973)

Football team, Chile (1969-1973)

In front of school, Chueca (1968)

A film crew of the Czech director Jaroslav Šikl in the Mapuche reserve of Coipuco, at Allende's invitation, filmed an agitprop about Chile's road to socialism, resulting in the film Viva Chile (1971)

A film crew of the Czech director Jaroslav Šikl in the Mapuche reserve of Coipuco, at Allende's invitation, filmed an agitprop about Chile's road to socialism, resulting in the film Viva Chile (1971)

Mapuche family trip

Meeting of two Mapuche friends

Meeting of Mapuche friends (street in Cholchol)

A group of men playing schueca or palin (similar to field hockey), this is how disputes were won

Playing a musical instrument (hollow corn cob), Chile

The ngillatún festival, the machi is resting and receiving refreshments from his female helpers

Mapuche beauty in her best clothes

Milan Stuchlík (left) at the end of his research in front of the school where he lived, with his inseparable friend Carlos Huenchuman

Jarka Stuchlíková with Milan and children in her Chilean bungalow

Jarka Stuchlíková (far right) with Milan and a postgraduate student in Cambridge (1970s)

Children Petr and Ludmila in Great Britain (1973)