Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card for 1988.557[.1-5]: 'These 'novenas' depict ways in which Death is often conceptualized as an anthropomorphised being - capable of beneficence and worthy of respect; not something or someone to be feared'
Event Date 1988
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Kristin Norget on 1/11/1988. Purchased by collector at a stall in year-round Morelia market.
Event Date 1/11/1988
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Acquisition Details)
Acquisition date: 5/1/1989
Event Date 5/1/1989
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1988.557[.1-5]: 'Five different 'novenas' or booklets of devotion containing ovations to be made to the Santisima Muerte - a female Saint of Death'
Event Date 3/2/1989
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Novena or booklet of devotion containing ovations to be made to the Santisima Muerte, a female Saint of Death. Stapled paper booklet with eight pages, printed with blue ink; image of Santa Muerte on the front under the title 'Novena' and within an intricate border.
Event Date 25/6/2021
Author: Katrina Dring