Mountain people of the monkey-puzzle forests who timed their year to the pewen harvest, climbing the araucaria stands of the high cordillera for its sacred pine nuts.
Originally a distinct Andean (possibly Huarpean-speaking) people, they were araucanized and drawn into Mapuche society after 1600 and joined the long Araucanian resistance; Pehuenche communities still gather the pewen in Biobío and Neuquén.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Pehuenche — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1750.
The araucanized Pehuenche of the monkey-puzzle forests became part of the Mapuche society Faron studied.
Background on the long Araucanian frontier the Pehuenche joined (broad context).
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