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Boleadoras:
It is an arm and also an instrument of genuinely native
work. It consists on ropes that carry in their extreme
some balls that are launched to distance with force
on the animals to knock them down. They were used primitively
by the Indians and after that were adopted by the Argentinean
‘Gaucho’. |
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Bombillas:
Light bulb of metal that in its lower extreme carries
a hollow pellet with small holes that is used to sip
the ‘mate’. |
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Facón:
Sharp, straight, and large knife. It is used for the
‘Gaucho’ as an arm of fight. |
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Gaucho:
Peasant typical of the River Plate with high skills
in the control of the horses and in the work of stockbreeding. |
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Mate:
Infusion of ‘yerba mate’ (a typical herb
for infusions). In the countryside, the city, was, is
and will be the Argentinean national beverage. ‘Mate’
is also called the pumpkin where this infusion is prepared.
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Patacón:
Former currency of silver of 96 hundredths. It was used
a lot to adorn the belts and ‘rastras’ of
the ‘Gauchos’. |
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Pava:
Kettle, where the water warms up to serve the ‘mate’.
During his trips the ‘Gaucho’ used to take
it hanged of the belt of his horse. |
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Poncho:
Crafty article of dressing that consist in a rectangular
piece of wool, vicuña, cloth or another fabric,
with an opening on its centre to pass the head, rests
on the shoulders and falls down under the knees. It
is used as an overcoat but, above all, it is used almost
for everything for its owner. It is a coat against the
outdoors that shelters in his dream, or sometimes is
a shield wound to the arm to stop the blows of the enemy
in the knife duels. |
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Rastra:
Piece of decoration, generally circular, oval or heart-shaped,
that can carry the initials of its owner or the mark
of the rancher as thus also could be chiselled of some
native motive. The countryman carry it hold in the buttonholes
his belt by ‘patacones’, other coins or
silver buttons joined by chains. |
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