Caroline Handmade Figurine / Sculpture Decorative Object

This beautiful catrina statuette is created from papier-mache. The skeletal sculpture is elegantly dressed, with flowers in her hair and a macaw at her bosom. The product is designed after the original "La Calavera Catrina", 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.