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Mapuche historical flags (Chile and Argentina)

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Historical Mapuche black and blue flag
Historical Mapuche red and blue flag

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Historical Mapuche black and blue flag

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

Modernized design

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

Historical Mapuche red and blue flag

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