Sea-hunters of the Patagonian fjords who kept a fire burning in the bottom of the canoe as they roamed the maze of islands northwest of the Strait of Magellan.
Devastated by introduced disease and the loss of their seas, forcibly resettled into towns from the 1920s; a few dozen Kawésqar speakers remain, the last at Puerto Edén on Wellington Island.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kawésqar (Alacaluf) — the shape you scrub through changes in 250 · 1557 · 1920.
A classic firsthand account of the canoe sea-hunters of the Patagonian fjords and channels by a settler raised among them.
Gusinde's ethnography of the Fuegian canoe peoples neighbouring the Kawésqar/Alacaluf of the Strait of Magellan (broad context).