The photograph shows Lewis Jones with six native Patagonians from the Tehuelche tribe. The Tehuelches lived in the region separating the Strait of Magellan and the Negro River. They used only dogs for hunting at first, and they began to hunt on horseback at the turn of the nineteenth century. They used the bow and arrow and the 'boleadores' as hunting implements and lived on guanaco and rhea meat. They also ate some plant food, though they didn't farm the land. Before the Spanish conquest, there were about four thousand Tehuelches in Patagonia. But they were defeated by the Spaniards and gradually assimilated into the culture of European settlers. By the mid-twentieth century, their number had fallen to fewer than a hundred, and only a few dozen continue to uphold their traditional way of life.