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image by Jaume Ollé and
António Martins, 05 May 2006
At Millamap
webpage, there is this comment: «According to Mr. Cesar Famin, in
his Historia de Chile 1839, the Mapuche flag is made of a white
star on a blue field.»
Olivier Touzeau, 09 Oct 2002
White star is small and was generally six pointed (even eight pointed,
always in XVI-XVII centuries) until XIX century when five
pointed star came on use. The blue was always light. Theres a suposed
flag from Lautaro, the heroic aracaunian leader that fight against spanish
invaders, that is light blue with a white central device as several small
squares one at side of other in diagonal; this was used in Valdivia Battle
and I have only a reconstruction. In a spanish picture show Lautaro with a
flag as the above.
Jaume Ollé, 09 Jul 2004
The main motive, in blue, is very similar to the chakana, an
Inca symbol, here depicted simply as a figure
enclosed in a crude zigzag line, made from isometric segments (stacked
square blocks 1+3+5+3+1).
António Martins, 16 Jul 2004
image by Mello Luchtemberg, 05 Jul 2004
At
Millamap
webpage, is shown flag said to be a Mapuche flag, and which looks like
a Bonnie Blue flag or a
Somalian one… There is this comment:
«According to Mr. Cesar Famin, in his Historia de Chile 1839,
the Mapuche flag is made of a white star on a blue
field.»
Olivier Touzeau, 09 Oct 2002
In XIX century five pointed star came on use for imitation to
foreigners (the Chileans).
Jaume Ollé, 09 Jul 2004
image by Eugene Ipavec, 28 Aug 2008
I was looking at the biography of Mapuche Indian Chief Lautaro and
there are
some
pictures of him waving what seems to be a Mapuche flag.
Esteban Rivera, 28 Aug 2008