A girl and her family in Oruro Bolivia buy bread for the shrine that they will build for her dead father at Todos Santos
A girl and her family in Oruro Bolivia buy bread with which to decorate the shrine that they will build at Todos Santo for her dead father who died two years before In the Altiplano of Bolivia it is customary that a family in which there has been a death within the last three years build a shrine at home at Todos Santos decorating it with religious symbols as well as a picture of the deceased and food and drink that he or she liked and then call down the spirit for a three day visit The bread is a particularly important type of decoration There are pieces of bread shaped like human beings representing the dead and there are also pieces in the shape of various old Inca symbols such as the sun and the moon
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