Patagonia



Animitas, Shrines,
Injun Signs
and more

You will find these things all over South America.
Many serve as memento mori to those killed in traffic accidents.
Others give an opportunity to pledge an offering to a heathen or catholic saint
you need a favor from, or in thanks for one granted








Animitas

San Expedito	Gauchito Gil	Difunta Correa

Boy, are these regions superstitious.
No doubt the church, as is its long-standing well-paying habit, will assimilate the more succesful ones.
and they will join that old standby


Santa Maria



Injun Signs


Don't get fooled...
they're not all shrines!
         
these are bus stops


small shrine in Willemstad, Curaçao
from my movie Edgar Palm en Otrabanda



Patagonia graveyards





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