ofrenda

plural ofrendas

1. A shrine of offerings to one's ancestors set up on the Day of the Dead.

   This show featured installations, painting, and sculptures, all of which are recast as ofrendas to the dead.

   2001, Karen Mary Davalos, Exhibiting Mestizaje, University of New Mexico Press, page 145

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   Other marginalized groups draw attention to their cause through large public ofrendas that usually include pictorial or sculptural and sometimes literary calaveras.

   1998, Juanita Garciagodoy, Digging the Days of the Dead, University Press of Colorado, page 95