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Date Posted: 11/9/2009 5:40:38 pm EST
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La Paz Celebrates Day Of The Skulls

Author: Andres Schipani Source: BBC

Title: LA PAZ CELEBRATES DAY OF THE SKULLS
Oscar Morales kneels down facing two crystal boxes, each containing two beret-wearing human skulls.
Surrounding him, thousands of people are walking around the huge graveyard, singing and playing popular music to their decorated skulls, praying to them, and making all kinds of offerings, from flower bouquets to sweets and bread.
Monica, an Andean indigenous woman, is wearing a bowler hat and flouncy skirt. She sits by a grave next to Justo, her great-grandfather's skull.
This is Dia de los Natitas - a local religious rite that reaches its high point each year in early November - just a week after the Catholic All Saints Day.
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