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I've yet to write a calavera about my mom, maybe I'll do that this year.
Marcela Valladolid: DÃa de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010
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A calavera, or "skull" takes the form of a bride in this sculpture.
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I've yet to write a calavera about my mom, maybe I'll do that this year.
Marcela Valladolid: Día de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010
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The calavera then lifted the bubbling cerveza to her jawbone, cracking it wide open.
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The calavera then lifted the bubbling cerveza to her jawbone, cracking it wide open.
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Along with some wild, hallucinatory sculptures e.g., a vulture feeding a shrieking calavera to its young, all atop a gaily mosaicked skull, this was probably the highlight.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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Some of you may even want to create an altar, complete with a calavera for a departed loved one.
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Some of you may even want to create an altar, complete with a calavera for a departed loved one.
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Some of you may even want to create an altar, complete with a calavera for a departed loved one.
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Above me, a ten-foot calavera danced its skeletal can-can, oblivious to my plight.
Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003
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