Chumjaluwün, known as Mulato, is remembered as the last great Aónikenk chief, and for a while Punta Arenas was fond of him. A son of Casimiro Biguá and brother of Papón, he led his people from 1892. In 1893 Governor Manuel Señoret gave him a provisional permit to occupy 10,000 hectares of state land in the Zurdo valley, near the Argentine border. There he raised horses, sheep and cattle, and sold broken-in horses in Punta Arenas.
Around 1900 a group of townspeople gave him a lunch in his honour at the Hotel de France. The photograph is kept in the archive of the Museo Regional de Magallanes; Martinic says no Indigenous chief had been honoured like that before, and none was after.
The permit was never made permanent. In 1905 the state auctioned the land, and it went to the Sociedad Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego, the Braun family's great sheep company. Mulato travelled to Santiago to plead with President Germán Riesco and came home with nothing but kind words. On that journey his family caught smallpox. He died in 1905, soon after returning to the Zurdo, and much of his community died with him.
