A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.

"A female 'machi' stands on a 'rewe', a seven-stepped pillared altar used by the Mapuche, indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. Machis are healers and religious leaders, who possess detailed knowledge of medicinal herbs and remedies and the power to connect with spirits. A rewe is the Mapuche representation of the 'Axis mundis' [sic] or cosmic tree, which connects a machi to the Earth's celestial poles and allows them to gather allied spirits and information to heal"--Patricia Domínguez, Vegatal matrix, 2021, London: Wellcome Collection, 2022, p. 27