This article discusses a Mapuche Indigenous mortuary context of the nineteenth century from the middle valley of the Negro River in northern Patagonia, Argentina, which is characterized by a double burial of a man and a woman. The use of both archaeological and ethnohistorical data allows us to hypothesize that the burial is of a man with a high status in the political and military hierarchy (cacique or capitanejo) and that the corpse of the woman was one of his wives who was sacrificed so she could accompany the man in his trip to Allhue Mapu, the land of souls. We contextualize this site with existing knowledge about the suttee practice in the Pampas and Norpatagonia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This case is an example of the burial ritual known as suttee that occurred between the last decades of Indigenous autonomy (1850–1880) and the first decades after the state conquest of their territory (1880–1900).

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潘帕-巴塔哥尼亚马普切酋长领地的殡葬仪式和苏蒂：Chimpay 的双重人类埋葬（阿根廷）

本文讨论了 19 世纪阿根廷巴塔哥尼亚北部内格罗河中谷的马普切土着太平间，其特点是男女双葬。考古和民族历史数据的使用使我们能够假设埋葬的是一个在政治和军事等级中具有很高地位的人（酋长要么卡塔内霍) 并且那个女人的尸体是他牺牲的妻子之一，以便她可以陪伴男人前往灵魂之地 Allhue Mapu。我们将这个网站与现有的知识联系起来苏蒂18 世纪和 19 世纪在潘帕斯草原和诺巴塔哥尼亚地区实践。这个案例是被称为埋葬仪式的一个例子苏蒂这发生在土著自治的最后几十年（1850-1880）和国家征服其领土后的最初几十年（1880-1900）之间。