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Paz Errazuria recent photographic series on the Kawesqar indigenous group in Patagonia. Of the three ethnic groups in the extreme south of Chile, Onas, Yaganes and Alacalufes, known by the general denomination of Fuegians, only the Kawesqar, or northern Alacalufes, subsist. Kawesqar, Sons of the Sun Woman is a photographic story about the last purebred people of this ethnic group in western Chilean Patagonia, through a series of solemn portraits taken continuously between 1994 and 2002. Many of the people who wanted to be photographed have died during this period. Includes texts by Jose Tonko P and Oscar E. Aguilera F.