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By celTatis

Una catrina en Londres

I was at the Mexican Embassy a couple of weeks ago and spotted this figure behind the receptionist's desk. Today I went back to give a talk and couldn't miss the chance to blip it (although I must say it is out of focus, I'm getting a bit careless). It is called a "catrina", one of the most popular figures associated with the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico; I've read in wikipedia that it takes after illustrator José Guadalupe Posada's La Calavera Catrina, a parody of a Mexican upper-class woman. I love it!

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