day of the dead figures

Parading grandly with her picture hat, purse and parasol, Catrina steals the show. Armando Ramirez creates the iconic figurine from recycled auto parts and scrap metal.

The original "La Calavera Catrina" was a zinc etching created by the artist José Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1910. Posada created the character, a female skeleton with an elegant hat, as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives who aspired to European style and denied their own heritage. The catrina has since become an emblem of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration and a popular folk art subject.

Catrina is the undisputed queen of Day of the Dead;, however, her popularity has grown so much that she makes appearances year-round in Mexican culture. This cheerful Catrina is made from a hard papier mache called cartonería, which has also expanded from making party favors to works of folk art in this same country. Marina Lozano creates the skeletal lady in a dress meant to evoke the colors of spring.

Day of the Dead celebrations are very popular in Mexico and Catrinas are a big part of it with their colorful, yet skeletal female figures. Catrinas' origins date back to satirical vignettes from 1910 and now the Orozco Family artisans use them as inspiration for this statuette painted and crafted by hand with recycled cardboard in papier mache style, so you can have a little of this picturesque Mexican tradition at home.

Catrinas are skeletal, but very colorful female figures popular in the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico, whose origin dates back to the satirical vignettes mocking the country's upper class made by Jose Guadalupe Posada in 1910. Artisans from the Orozco Family handcraft this Catrina statuette with recycled cardboard in papier mache style and paint it by hand so you can have a little of this picturesque Mexican tradition at home.