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Subject(s)

• All Souls' Day—Ecuador [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• folk art (traditional art)—Ecuador [Browse]

Notes

• A framed masapán bread sculpture of a large horse with four small figures riding on top.
• Masapán, from maize dough (masa) and bread (pan), is a folk art tradition practiced uniquely in Calderón; a rural parish of Quito, Ecuador. The practice of making masapán figurines emerged in the 1940s. It grew out of the tradition of making guagua de pan, a sweet roll shaped "bread baby" decorated to look like a swaddled infant. Eaten and offered at graves on All Souls' Day (the Day of the Dead), the tradition is syncretic: eating T'anta wawa (Quechua for "bread" and "baby") is an ancestral rite in many Andean regions of South America.

OCLC

1347241269

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