
Cooking with the Mapuche

stone for grinding the grain, outside the Ruka
(mono and metate)

inside the Ruka
(from the Temuco Museum)


the trongtrong, bowls made from cow utters
(from the Temuco Museum)

a seaweed food material

kollol in the Temuco market

preparing the fire

putting the bread to be boiled into the kettle

removing the sümita, the boiled bread

the cooks

raking the coals over the bread to be baked

turning the bread

removing the finished bread
and knocking off the ashes
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