Palin

Palin is played on a long field between two sides, each player carrying a wüño — a curved wooden stick — driving a small ball toward the opposing end. Colonial sources record both its popularity and officials' recurring attempts to curb it; the game outlasted the officials.

A palin is an occasion as much as a match: communities meet, host and feed one another, and the play binds relationships between lof. It remains a living practice — played in communities across Wallmapu and organised today in schools, clubs and intercommunal encounters.