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Title
"Día de los Muertos" Community Altar and Ceremony
Creator
Rasul, David, Organizer
Contributor
Rasul, David, Organizer
Montoya, Gina, Organizer
Romo, Tere, Organizer
Orosco, Juanishi, Organizer
Solis, Arnaldo, Organizer
Cobb, Señora Angelbertha, Organizer
Ortiz, Henry, Collaborator
Portillo, Lupe, Collaborator
Date Created and/or Issued
November 1, 1978
1978-11-01
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
Rights Information
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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
Description
A table is draped in black and covered with typical altar components. Behind the table is a portable mural of the goddess Coatlicue. In front of the table is a semicircle of candles containing flowers and devotional figures. In front of the candles a rug is laid out with a cross on it.
Cat.3 024(1)
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Type
image
Form/Genre
35mm slide
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb509nb518
CEMA 8
Language
English
Spanish
Subject
Altars
Aztec goddesses
Aztecs
Assemblage (art)
Calaveras
Candles and lights
Corn in art
Día de los muertos
Flowers in art
Food in art
Crosses in art
Coatlicue (Aztec deity)
Jesus Christ in art
Masks
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Marigolds
Molcajetes
Moon - In art
Ofrendas
Pan de muerto
Photography in art
Saints in art
Chicano art
Chicanos
Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Place
Sacramento (Calif.)

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