Here are little skeletons going about their business - some are playing musical instruments, others are styling the hair of skeleton clients, and one little vignette shows a jealous skeleton wife who has caught her skeleton husband in a compromising position. A very good book on this subject is The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico, by Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer. It has some good material on the altars which are constructed during this occasion.

My students, Kai and Star, constructed a lovely altar in our classroom last fall for this observance. They used traditional "dead bread", sugar skulls, the symbolic marigolds, and tokens of remembrance from friends, family members, and even pets who had passed on. They studied the altars made by other San Antonio artists which were on exhibit at galleries and markets throughout the city.