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Information throughout, as well as phrasing for “The lovely, frail paper picados,” comes from Mary Andrade’s Through the Eyes of the Soul, Day of the Dead in Mexico, La Oferta Review Newspaper, Inc., 1999; Rosalind Rosoff Beimler’s The Days of the Dead, Editado por Pornegranate, 1998; and Mexicoconnect (mexicoconnect.com).

"Little candy skull" and "As I look you shall look": from Juanita Garciagody’s Digging the Days of the Dead, University Press of Colorado, 1998

Some of the photos at this site and additional information and products can be found at the following sites:

Votive Art

Box Turtle Mexican Imports

Far Flung Arts

Milagros Mexican Folk Art

Border Antiques

Kalarte Gallery

Mexican Retablos

NorthNet


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