Hand Painted Sugar Skull Stone

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Sugar Skull Rock Painting Day of the Dead Dia by OneCuriousHuman http://etsy.me/2dz8xYl via @Etsy

Small Sugar Skull Rock Painting

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Sugar Skull Rock Painting by OneCuriousHuman http://etsy.me/2dISx7m via @Etsy

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Dias de Los Muertos.

A photo from a Dias de los Muertos remembrance parade:

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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.

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