File:José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera oaxaqueña, broadsheet, 1903.jpg

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Calavera oaxaqueña by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Guadalupe_Posada" class="extiw" title="en:José Guadalupe Posada">en:José Guadalupe Posada</a>. Print shows a male skeleton dressed in a charro outfit wielding a machete among skulls and skeletons. Includes song lyrics and cartoon skeleton figures. Calaveras (skulls) are connected with the Mexican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead" class="extiw" title="en:Day of the Dead">Día de los Muertos</a>, and Posada was the acknowledged master of the imagery of calaveras. This image is named Calavera oaxaqueña (the skull from Oaxaca), likely after the rural get-up of the main figure.

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current20:29, 6 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 20:29, 6 January 20171,783 × 2,368 (2.82 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<p>Calavera oaxaqueña by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Guadalupe_Posada" class="extiw" title="en:José Guadalupe Posada">en:José Guadalupe Posada</a>. Print shows a male skeleton dressed in a charro outfit wielding a machete among skulls and skeletons. Includes song lyrics and cartoon skeleton figures. Calaveras (skulls) are connected with the Mexican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead" class="extiw" title="en:Day of the Dead">Día de los Muertos</a>, and Posada was the acknowledged master of the imagery of calaveras. This image is named Calavera oaxaqueña (the skull from Oaxaca), likely after the rural get-up of the main figure. </p>
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