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There are many special items that are made only for this celebration
such as the special decorative loaves of bread called Pan de Muertos
(bread of the dead), made into shapes like human bodies, bones, crosses,
skulls, and animals. Sugar skulls and a special sweet candy called
alfenique, usually made in the shapes of animals or toy coffins, are
hard to come by at other times of the year but can usually be found at
this time every year. Many folk artists make special toys for the
children to enjoy out of wood, clay, tin and papier mache. The favored
image is a skeleton and dolls of all kinds and sizes, coffins, puppets,
masks, miniature funeral processions and the list goes on and on. The
child’s first acquaintance with death, even if they do not understand it
at an early age, is natural and not full of fear.
As always we have an offrenda set up in El Interior and will be showing
the short documentary film by award winning designers Charles and Ray
Eames beginning next Thursday the 30th of October. We will have an area
where you can sit and view the film, come on in and ask us to turn it on
if it is not running when you arrive. The film was commissioned by
Alexander Giraud, founder of the International Folk Art Musem in Santa
Fe.
We thank you for your patronage and hope to see you soon.
Con carino,
Marcia Lucas
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