A photo from a Dias de los Muertos remembrance parade:
credit for photo to whitehotphonix photography
Vocabulary:
calaveras: colorful sculptures of skulls used during Dia de los Muertos. These are sometimes made from sugar or from papier-mache.
Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead. A celebration held in Latino communities and
throughout Latin American on November 1 and 2.
ofrenda(s): an offering, often in the form of an alter, created during/for the Dias de los Muertos.