Around this time, Barrios personality began to split as he faced an internal struggle.

Fred had the photos to walk us through it by about 1923.

Barrios really had developed as an artist.

He also ha the extra frets on the guitar.

But this is also very important, like these last frets, because we don't have it on every guitars.

And sometimes when you have to play some Barrios pieces you cannot play all the notes because he composed especially for that.

Exactly.

The world has been tryin to catch up to Agustín Barrios since about 1920, and that's the reality.

This was a photograph taken in the in the home of one of Barrios principal students.

And it really showed him at the ultimate expression of his concert career as Agustín Barrios, Very professional.

His presentation was as European as he could make it.

Then, because of a lot of internal pressures in his family and he was getting close to the age of 40, he had a midlife crisis.

And when he emerged from this midlife crisis; Oh, wow.

That's who he became.

Barrios underwen a complete spiritual, physical and cosmetic transformation and underwent the earliest cosmetic plastic surger ever performed in South America.

Why did he do this?

I mean, was this sort of a publicity thing or it was somethin sort of conflict within himself that he was he was resolvin or what what led him to do this?

You mean like underg three surgeries that had never been done with no antibiotics and no guarantee of success?

There's something in hi that was exploding and it wasn't he wasn't being accepted in the European model and he had to break out.

He just wrapped himself around his Guaraní heritage.

His transition included changing his name to Nitsuga.

Nitsuga Mangoré.

It's Agustín spelled backwards.

And Mangoré was the name of one of the last indigenous chiefs of the tribes of Paraguay.

If we look at a typical Guaraní, this is who you would have encountered on the Rio Paraguay.

This was taken from the earliest ever motion picture film from Paraguay from 1924.

And this was Barrios after his transition.