In pre-Hispanic cultures of Meso America, Nahua, Toltec, and Aztec believed that only in dying did a human become awake. For a people who lived with human suffering death offered a release from daily living and the restrictions imposed by other cultures.
For the Day of the Dead, the markets are filled with marigolds and combstock flowers. Market vendors sell chicken molé and hot chocolate as well as incense. The bakers have made bread in the shape of skeletons and paper cut out tissue hangs in many places, the skeletons blowing in the wind. Little skeleton images of clay present themselves in many shapes and forms including those of waitresses, photographers, policemen, soccer player, prisoner, and ice cream vendors. Every day life images are presented at altars so the dead may come and visit.
Please choose from the links below to view our online selection of hand made Day of the Dead items:
To purchase items from our Day of the Dead folk art collection online, please call our Encintas, California store at (760) 634-1426..
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Images used for section titles derived from the artworks of José Guadalupe Posada.
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