Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1991.200 A-D: '4 modelled and painted dough heads, 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. A) Woman with basket on her head containing a bird. B) Woman with elaborate pink headdress. C) Jesus with green halo. D) Clown with tall pointed multi-coloured hat with ' PEPITO' on brim.'
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, made from Pan de Muerto ('Bread of the Dead'), made as a gift or altar offering during Day of the Dead celebrations. Features Jesus wearing a green and gold headdress. Blood (red paint) appears to be all over his neck, mouth, and eyes. Decorated with glitter.
Event Date 30/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal