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Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Oaxaca Mexico (1998)

Pictures from the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival in Oaxaca Mexico (1998) 

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 ABOVE: Various calaveras at a stand outside one of the large cemeteries. 

LEFT: Artist recreating Posada's "La Calavera de la Catrina" outside cemetery at Dia de los Muertos

RIGHT: Calaveras (skeleton puppets and figures) hanging in a Oaxaca market for Day of the Dead.

ABOVE: girls decorating graves for Dia de los Muertos

 ABOVE and BELOW: graves decorated for Dia de los Muertos (that's me standing next on in the bottom right picture)