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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
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
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
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