altar_offerings

Dia de los muertos: Altar Offerings

• aguardiente
• altar arch marigolds
• apples
• atole
• bag of bones
• bananas
• bark paper cutouts
• beans
• breads of the dead
• calaca finger and thumb prints
• Calavera Catrina mask
• Calavera Zapatista puzzle
• candles
• champurrado
• chicken (stuffed or in mole)
• chile
• chocolate (Mexican)
• cider
• clay censer
• cocoa beans (used as currency for bribes)
• corn (on the cob or Indian)
• cut paper banners
• dried fish
• embroidered napkins
• glass of water (a must!)
• guavas
• jadeite (used as a bribe)
• jicamas
• little priests
• lotería
• lyres (miniature)
• mamones
• marigolds
• mock bread of the dead
• novios
• nuts
• oranges
• peanuts
• personal mementoes
• petate
• photos of departed
• pipian sauce (made with pump- kin Leeds)
• pork cracklings
• pork (stuffed)
• pozole
• punche
• religious images
• sand paintings
• skeletons
• soft drinks
• squash
• sugar sculptures
• tamales
• tin toys
• tortillas (corn)
• toy coffins
• Tree of Death
• wild duck
• wreaths (fresh or plastic)