Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: HEYDN, Doris
Title: Untitled [Feast for dead souls, including tamales, fruits, pumpkins, set on altar, Day of the Dead, Mexico], ca. 1942
Event Date: ca. 1942
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.096819

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in graphite] Day of the dead / Mexico / religion; stamped: [in black ink] PHOTO CREDIT / doris heydn; stamped: [in black ink] Credit: [black star] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK; handwritten: [in graphite] 20 pica x 3 15/16" / Flush t & b / 941/16 / feast for dead souls, set on / altar style table includes / tamales, fruit, pumpkin, / pulque, "Bread of the Dead".; handwritten: [in blue ink] #830

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: MEXICO / DAY OF THE DEAD
Retouching: N