Papier Mache Statuette - Catrina with Pineapple Toasted Almond Measures 10 1/2” high x

Measures 10 1/2” high x 4” wide x 4” deep

Kathiana Quispe designs a handbag of stunning beauty

Accommodates a 4" x 6" photograph or print

Mexico's pre-Hispanic cultures honored their dead through celebrations and commemorations

plywood and conacaste wood

Papier Mache Statuette - Catrina with Pineapple Toasted Almond Measures 10 1/2” high xWorking in papier mache, Marina Lozano of Mexico creates this delightful catrina statuette. The skeletal sculpture is elegantly dressed, with flowers in her hair and a pineapple in her hand. Lozano designs the figurine after the original 'La Calavera Catrina', a zinc etching created by the artist Jos Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1910. Posada created the character, a female skeleton with an elegant hat, as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives