Chonos

Noun

Chono (plural Chonos or Chono)

1. A member of an extinct indigenous people of the southern Chilean archipelago.
   • [T]he appellation by which the Indians after whom the islands inhabited by them were called the Archipelago de los Chonos, were known to the early missionaries, etc., of Chile. According to Lenz (Dicc. etimol., p.312), Chono is probably the name given by these Indians to themselves. Its etymology...1911, Alexander F Chamberlain, “On the Puelchean and Tsonekan (Tehuelchean), the Atacameñan (Atacaman) and Chonoan, and the Charruan Linguistic Stocks of South America.”, in American Anthropologist...

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