day 05 ushuaia museums
Sightsee: Yamana Museum � Price 3.5p (US$ 1) � It was small and sweet � One can spend 2 minutes to 2 hours in there
� It answered the most important question � Who were the Yamanas (Yahgans)? They were the naked people running around Tierra Del Fuego for the last 7000 years � Only 6500 years ago the dense forest around Tierra Del Fuego was grown. They could build their canoes by bark from the trees. � They kept warmth with fire and simple shelter � Why were they nude? � Gore-Tex, or the lack of it was the major reason they were nude (other minor reasons were they looked sexy and thus promoted reproduction) � So since their shelter was temporary and thus not well built and not water proof they were wet all the time. and they knew not the secret of Gore-Tex so the only waterproof clothing they had was their own skin , anything they wore would be drenched after the frequent rainy days, and they would have lost much body heat due to the wetness (those dumb folks who insisted on wearing clothes were eliminated by evolution after those many stormy nights) but they carry their fire around everywhere even on their canoes.
� On stormy nights, they went down the cliffs to hunt cormorants � They ate whales seals penguins etc
� they ate mussels and built up their garbage dumps called middens, and houses were built upon those The picture behind showed the naked natives. There were only two pure blood Yamanas left in the whole world and both of them are women.
� They had dogs which were probably introduced by the early European settlers
� The Yamanas didn't fed their dogs, dogs had to survive themselves (but they help them hunting), no wonder they had to climb the glaciers with a German to lady to get fed.
The prison museum also includes the maritime museum.
. One of those ships called Beagle. It was the one Darwin took to Tierra Del Fuego (Land of Fire).
� Banks who poisoned eight of his families just to sell the cattle to cover the debt. The poisoned didn't work very well. So he used a rifle to kill them all. He also denied he ever did it. He said it was someone from the outside
Some prisoners just have too much time.
� A Russian anarchy promoter who thought no government was better for the workers. They couldn't elect anyone to represent wholeheartedly for themselves. � Prisoner in life was treated harshly, they got half the potion of food and spent many days in solitary.
� A child killer who started killing one day after dinner because he said, "he fell like it". He was jailed but released in 1993, he started killing again. Many children in Buenos Aries went missing. He was sentenced to life
� Some killed for passion, like this man killed another man who messed with his sister.
� Prisoner has no escape. The floors were hard rocks � Even if prisoners escaped, they had to come back, unless they chose the life style of the Yamanas (no food, no cloth). They couldn't light a fire because it was too easy to be spotted.
� First encounter: some Dutch fist came to Tierra Del Fuego in the 16th century, their ships wrecked and they had to land on one of the islands, they were claimed to be killed by the Yamanas. (Even so, modern Dutch tourists are pretty safe in Tierra Del Fuego)
� the Tierra Del Fuego wasn't very interesting to the Europeans because it was cold and Yamanas had nothing to trade
� then the 18 century came and seal hunting and whale killing became the norm. The Yamanas were left with little resources to support themselves. � for the Yamanas they had lived in the Tierra Del Fuego for 7000 years. It was the whole known world. And suddenly those funny people arrived out of thin airs. They were as shocked as if we would see the aliens from another planet.
� Some prisoners were political. A few of those prisoners escaped because they got help from some Chileans. Those were the only people ever escaped the prison.
� Price: 9p (about US$ 2.5) � Three museum for the price of one � Maritime Museum showed model ships. One of those ships called Beagle. It was the one Darwin took to Tierra Del Fuego (Land of Fire). � Prison Museum showed the Prison � Antarctica Museum showed the Antarctica related things � Regional history museum showed the regional history. � Wait a minute, isn't that 4 museums?
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� When Magellan first came to Tierra Del Fuego he saw the heating system of the Yamanas (the fires) so he called it Tierra Del Fuego (the land of fire)