Trengtreng through the eyes of sculptors, painters, and craftsmen across the ages
Wooden sculpture by Ildefonso Quilempan depicting the rival serpents Kai Kai (water/flood) and Txeng Txeng (earth/mountain), Plaza de Nueva Imperial, Araucanía, Chile.
Engraving by Francisco Cavallo from Alonso de Ovalle’s *Histórica Relación del Reino de Chile* (Rome, 1646), showing a Mapuche nguillatún ritual to the spirits.
Mapuche kultrun, the ceremonial drum used by machis in rituals and healing ceremonies; this example comes from Lonquimay, Chile, c. 1970.
19th-century Mapuche wooden grave effigies (chemamull) in the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago.
Villarrica, one of the most active volcanoes in Mapuche territory, associated with Pillán, the thunder-and-volcano spirit.
Illustration of Mapuche warriors on horseback, published in *Revista Selecta*, October 1911.
