Las Momias de Guanajuato
Daniel Riccuito Daniel Riccuito

Las Momias de Guanajuato

Gazing at the faces of Guanajuato's famous mummies can make you wonder what kind of expression you'll wear when you face death. Will you be as indignant as this woman, her spectacles smashed crooked, her dark hair a stormy swirl on top of her head, gaping her mouth wide in a silent shout of outrage? Or feebly defiant like this other woman, naked except for a bracelet, who sticks her withered tongue out? Will you lower your face in humble resignation, like this man draped in the dusty rags of what must have been his finest suit? Or fake nonchalance, like this Churchillian burgher, bald and still looking portly even though he's a husk, who seems about to give a speech to dead Rotarians?

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