After a long month of December with candles, presents, carols and plenty of traditional food, we have passed Christmas and New Year’s Eve. In many places around the world, New Year’s Eve marks the end of one year and the beginning of a new and […]
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La Catrina: From the Aztec underworld to the Day of the Dead
This weekend Moesgaard Museum celebrated the Day of the Dead, or Día de Muertos, in style. We had paper flowers, coloured paper hangings, lively skeletons greeting our guests, face painting, and an altar for the dead. And in our ethnographic exhibition, La Catrina and her […]
A week of scary things: Skulls, skeletons, and dentists
Soon, the dead are coming for a visit. In the US (and increasingly here in Denmark) Halloween will be celebrated tomorrow. Scary pumpkins are placed on front porches, children are choosing their most terrifying costumes, and some will go to church and light candles on […]
In Other Shoes – Mexican Sandals
“Mexican sandals. Given to me on February 22nd 1958 by professor F. Bonet, Mexico D.F. The Spanish-Mexican name for sandals is “huaranches”. The soles are made of leather and the rest are straps, braided in a particular way. On the left sandal there is an […]
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