Iconography in Mexico's day of the dead: Origins and meaning

Ethnohistory

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-218

  Brandes, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33845880658     PISSN: 00141801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/483058     Document Type: Article

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