Fishermen of the fog: The Changos and their ancestors-2008
Recreación de personaje aspirando polvos alucinógenos (dibujo Alex Clave).
Tubo madera para aspirar polvos psicoactivos con representación de rostro humano. Periodo Post nwanaku, 1000 a 1450 d.C.Colecció n Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino,2566.
Tableta para polvos alucinógenos. Madera. Norte Grande. Periodo Post Tiwanaku 1000 - 1300 d.C. Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino , 1975.
Tubo madera para aspirar polvos psicoactivos con representación de rostro humano. Periodo Post nwanaku, 1000 a 1450 d.C.Colecció n Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino,2566.
( Espátula con representación de felino. Hueso. Norte Grande. Periodo Post nwanaku 1000 - 1300 d.C. Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino ,2783.
Tableta para polvos alucinógenos con representación de llama felinizada. Madera,concha perla y malaquita. Norte Grande. Período Post nwanaku 1000 - 1300 d.C. Colección Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino ,2594.
Detalle tableta para polvos alucinógenos. Madera. Norte Grande. Periodo Post Tiwanaku 1000 - 1300 d.C. Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino , 1975.
Máscara ritual pintada.Cuero. Costa de lquique,Pescadores Tardíos , 1000 - 1470 d.C. Colección Museo Regional de lquique.
Máscara ritual pintada.Cuero. Costa de lquique,Pescadores Tardíos , 1000 - 1470 d.C. Colección Museo Regional de lquique.
(Español) Sustancias psicoactivas
Culturally different from the inland peoples, the northern fishing communities shared the ritual practice of inhaling potent psychoactive substances
Although the northern coast of Chile has no plants with psychoactive properties, the inhabitants of this zone consumed a powder prepared with this kind of substances. The first vestiges of these practices date from the millennium before our Era, when two basic implements for using hallucinogenic substances already existed: a tablet to hold the powder and a tube to inhale it through the nose. Over time, this paraphernalia became more sophisticated, reaching its pinnacle under the influence of the Tiwanaku, a State that flourished on the Altiplano of Bolivia. While we do not know exactly what substances the fishermen of the Chilean coast inhaled, studies undertaken in San Pedro de Atacama, where such rites were quite common, show that some of them were derived from the pods of the Cebil tree (Anadenanthera colubrina), which grows in Bolivia and in northwest Argentina.