2. Day of the Dead
Mexican holiday celebrated throughout
Mexico, and acknowledged around the world
in other cultures.
November 2nd
3. Tradition
The holiday focuses on gatherings with
family to pray and remember friends and
family members who have died, and help
support their spiritual journey.
4. Traditions include building private altars
called “ofrendas”, honoring the deceased
using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the
favorite foods and beverages of the
departed, and visiting graves with these as
gifts. Visitors also leave possessions of the
deceased at the graves.
6. Pan de muerto
Type of sweet roll traditionally baked
in Mexico during the day of the dead(Día de
Muertos)
It is a sweetened soft bread, often decorated
with bone-shaped phalanges pieces.
8. La Calavera Catrina
Is a zinc etching by famous Mexican
printmaker, cartoon illustrator and
lithographer José Guadalupe Posada.
“La muerte es democrática, ya que a fin de cuentas, güera, morena, rica o
pobre, toda la gente acaba siendo calavera”
- José Guadalupe Posada
9. The image
represents a
female skeleton
dressed only in a
hat befitting the
upper class outfit of
a European of her
time.
