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Title: Fiesta de Colores
Creator: Cultural Affairs Committee, Organizer
Contributor: Cultural Affairs Committee, Organizer
Montoya, Gina, Organizer
Orosco, Juanishi, Organizer
Romo, Tere, Organizer
Solis, Arnaldo, Organizer
Rasul, David, Organizer
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1980
Publication Information: California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, cema@library.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-8563, URL: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection: Royal Chicano Air Force archives
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Description: Aztec dancers surround a large ofrenda at the Fiesta de Colores, March 1980, at Southside Park, Sacramento. "In setting up for the main altar, representatives (guardians) from each direction make offerings. Picture from right to left: Josie talamontez [sic], Rosa Hernandez, Jennie Baca, LaLa Polendo, (next two people are unidentified). They are representing the "west" direction of women. "
Cat.3 030(9)
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Type: image
Form/Genre: 35mm slide
photography
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb3199p0h5
CEMA 8
Language: Spanish
Subject: Altars
Aztec dance
Cardinal points
Chicanas
Chicanos
Candles and lights
Feather (material)
Headgear
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Ofrendas
Orientation (Religion)
Religion in art
Spirituality in art
Spring in art
Spring--Religious aspects
Syncretism (Religion)
Women
Place: Sacramento (Calif.)

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