PHOTOS: Bolivia's Day Of The Skulls

Serie: ÑATITAS - RETRATOS INERTES Between 2012 and 2017 Fotografiadas entre el 2012 y el 2017. Human Skulls portrayed in the General Cemetery of the city of La Paz, Bolivia. During the day November 8, Day that is celebrated the party of Ñatitas (flat noses) In some cases the skulls are family and even children or babies.

Meet the Starchild Skull © by Lloyd Pye In the 1930’s, in a small rural village 100 miles southwest of Chihuahua, Mexico, at the back of a mine tunnel, two mysterious remains were found: a complete human skeleton and a smaller, malformed skeleton. In late February of 1999, Lloyd Pye was first shown the Starchild […]

These spectacular photos show the people of the indigenous Aymara nation, who live in the vast, remote plains of South America's Altiplano plateau.

Believers offer their relatives' skulls coca leaves, cigarettes and alcohol in Bolivia.

Of the megalithic ruins of the world, one that still stupefies visitors to South America; researchers and laymen alike, is the complex of Tiwanaku, also called Tiahuanaco in Bolivia. The most mysterious part of this archaeological site for many is Puma Punku, a cluster of shattered hard stone building block components that lie undisturbed in...

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In this photo from 1904, and likely taken by famed archaeologist Arturo Posnansky, we can see that the great Sun Gate located at Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) on the Altiplano of Bolivia is broken in 2 pieces. Such damage is very likely to have been the result of a massive cataclysm that occurred in the distant past....

The celebration is an example of how indigenous traditions and Catholic rites have mixed over the years.

Devotees in Bolivia bring decorated skulls to a cemetery chapel in the capital La Paz for the annual Day of the Skull festival.