Day of the Dead/Día de los Mueto Festival 2013
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- National Museum of the American Indian
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- Video Title
- Day of the Dead/Día de los Mueto Festival 2013
- Description
- The National Museum of the American Indian celebrated its annual Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos Festival on October 26-27, 2013. Visitors could enjoy several ofrendas (altars), and special programming that included music and dance performances in the Potomac, featuring Los Tecuanis (Mixtec) performing la Danza de Los Tequanis (Dance of the Jaguars) and la Danza de los Viejitos (Dance of the old men); Grupo AWAL (Maya-Mam) performing (Dance of the Kites). Other cultural events included sugar skull demonstrations and hands-on activities in the imagiNATIONS Activity Center that included creating papel picados, paper marigolds, and decorating plaster skulls.
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- 1 min 19 sec
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- Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
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- Education
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- Native Americans;American Indians
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