Sugar Skull on Red Patch

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Mexico, abundant in sugar production and lacking money to buy fancy imported European church decorations at the time, learned quickly from the friars how to make sugar art for thei r religious festivals. Sugar skulls, dating back to the Colonial Period 18th century, represented a departed soul, had the name written on the forehead and was placed on the home ofrenda or gravestone to honor the return of a particular spirit. 3 1/4" x 2" Show more