Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1991.178 A-S: '19 modelled and painted dough heads, some decorated with sparkles, with small handles at bottom. The heads or ' Caritas para pan de muerto' are baked into round loaves of ' pan de muerto' or bread of the dead. The bread is used as an offering on the household altar or is be given as a gift in the household exchanges common during the festival..... G) Little female face with yellow headdress....'

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Kristin Norget in 1990.
Event Date 1990
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Caritas para pan de muerto. Painted dough head with handle, made from Pan de Muerto ('Bread of the Dead'), made as a gift or altar offering during Day of the Dead celebrations. Features a woman wearing a yellow headdress. Decorated with glitter.
Event Date 29/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal