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. Single page of thick, glossy paper with an image of Santisima Muerte on the front and text on the bak under the heading 'Oracion de la Santisima Muerte'.
Event Date 25/6/2021
Author: Katrina Dring