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Bookmark or Share- Death Cart – Works – American Folk Art MuseumDeath carts, with their terrifying figures of La Muerte, are a peculiarly New Mexican art form, appearing in the Holy Week processions of the Brotherhood. In their secret rites, Penitentes dragged the heavy, cumbersome death carts to calvarios, where they commemorated the Crucifixion.
- Death Cart (La Muerte en su Carreta) | MAVCOR - Yale UniversityThe death cart was a central prop in the brothers’ Good Friday re-enactment of the Passion of Christ, which became increasingly recognized by outsiders for its violence, flagellations, and culmination in a pseudo-crucifixion.
- The Death Cart: Its Place among the Santos of New MexicoThe Death Cart: Its Place among the Santos of New Mexico. BY THOMAS J. STEELE. The carreta de la muerte is a small cart built in the style of the old oxcart in which rides an allegorical figure of death, such as a skeleton.
- Death Cart - Denver Art MuseumThe cart was used in the Good Friday re-enactment of the Passion of Christ and was meant to remind sinners to be prepared, because death was ever-present. In New Mexico and Colorado, the figures are usually dressed as a woman carrying a bow and arrow, known as Doña Sebastiana, probably in reference to Saint Sebastian, who was martyred by arrows.
- Same Inspiration, Different Story - Denver Art Museumidentify “who, what, when, where, and why” details for the Death Cart; use their imaginations to create a story based on hypotheses they develop; and write a story that includes a beginning, a middle, and an end that resolves some conflict developed in the middle of the story.
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