CHEMAMULL ESTATUAS

These statues are also located at the northern entrance of the city, in the same area as the Mano de Madera . The chemamull are Mapuche statues made of wood. They were mainly used during funeral rites to accompany the soul of the deceased to the afterlife. Here, the statues represent a man and a woman whose gaze is oriented to the east. This orientation is not insignificant and rather poetic: in other words, they look in the direction of the sunrise, where every day they await the rebirth of their loved ones with the arrival of dawn.