Each year a different member in the community is chosen to make the candles,which will light the altar in the cemetery chapel.
“Her bedroom is emptied and her body placed in wake. Seats are placed in her room for guest and family. The body is adorned and covered with white veils. Coal and copal are burned regularly.”
After suffering from a back complaint an elderly woman dies on the 31st of October.
“The village’s brass band plays music for us in the cemetery.”
The container next to the musician is filled with home made aguardiente, which is shared and offered to the community in the cemetery.