Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Web LinkDate Posted: 10/29/2010
Learn different aspects of Día de los Muertos and how it is celebrated and practiced. The Smithsonian Latino Center (SLC) presents a Dia de los Muertos 3D experience in the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum (LVM) illustrating customs and beliefs varying from ancient Mesoamerica to those currently practiced in today's Latino culture. Join the SLC in celebrating and exploring Latino cultural heritage through this holiday for honoring the dead and the cycle of life and death.
Museum education
The man in this painting, holding an apparition of the baby Jesus, appears to be a saint. Known a...
Mexico, Mexican American, Latin America, holiday, Latino, Latin American Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, culture, Latin American, tradition, Hispanic American Heritage Month, religion, traditional, hispanic, celebration, November, Latino Heritage Month, Chicano, October, September
Author and artist Carmen Lomas Garza takes readers to her hometown of Kingsville, Texas, near the...
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