Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a special Mexican tradition to celebrate the memory of those souls who are no longer with us. The colorful festivities are marked with highly elaborate ...

La Catrina is a very tall and fashionable female skeleton. She is the most well-known symbol for the Día de los Muertos holiday. This stylish lady comes back to join the celebration every single year.

Hollowed-out eyes, stitched mouths, and intricate flower wreaths are some of the distinctive markings of La Calavera Catrina—known more simply as La Catrina, “the elegant skull”—a cultural makeup worn ...

In many years of traveling to Mexico I've often encountered a tall, elegantly attired female skeleton sporting an extravagantly plumed hat — in books, in cartoons, on posters, in figures and in the ...