Girl holding picture of dead father in a cemetery in Oruro, Bolivia

A girl, standing in the cemetery of Oruro, Bolivia, at Todos Santos, holds up a picture with a photograph and the name of her dead father. In the Altiplano of Bolivia, it is customary that a family, in which there has been a death within the last three years, call down the spirit for a three day visit at Todos Santos. On the third day, when the spirit leaves the home, the families go to the cemeteries to decorate the graves and say farewell to the soul of the dead.

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A girl, standing in the cemetery of Oruro, Bolivia, at Todos Santos, holds up a picture with a photograph and the name of her dead father. In the Altiplano of Bolivia, it is customary that a family, in which there has been a death within the last three years, call down the spirit for a three day visit at Todos Santos. On the third day, when the spirit leaves the home, the families go to the cemeteries to decorate the graves and say farewell to the soul of the dead.