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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Argentina: Patagonian Gaucho


This sheep-herding gaucho of Argentina’s Patagonia shows more than a little Mapuche ancestry in his eyes. He does not use the traditional black Zorro hat popular in the Pampa to the north because tempestuous winds would keep him running after it. On certain days or places he would need to pull his cap down so much that they would bend his ears down too. The Patagonian wind is so violent that, in 1984, having lost one of my two horses while crossing that vast empty green universe, it pulled so much water from my eyes that they would not let me scan the horizon.
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Ce gaucho éleveur de moutons de la Patagonie argentine laisse voir dans ses yeux qu’un peu de sang Mapuche. Il n’usait pas le traditionnel chapeau noir de Zorro, populaire dans la pampa au nord, car les vents tempétueux le feraient courir derrière lui tout le temps. Certains jours il devrait enfoncer sa casquette jusqu’aux yeux et sur ses oreilles. Ce vent est si violent qu’en 1984, ayant perdu l’un des deux chevaux avec lesquels je traversais la Patagonie d’océan à océan, il m’arracha tant d’eau des yeux qu’ils ne me laissaient pas scanner l’horizon.