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Durango, Colorado Cemetery grave cherub
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman shares some of her favorite cherub photographs from Hispanic cemeteries around the Southwest. The image is an infant's head with upturned angel wings. A popular Catholic image, the term cherub was also mentioned multiple times in the Hebrew Bible. These cherubs are made of metal or plaster casts that are applied to the gravestone and then heavily painted, and even repainted. I have found this image in Texas, Arizona, and Southern Colorado. I don't seem to have any of them from New Mexico, strangely.
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Alpine, Texas cemetery grave cherub
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| Alamosa, Colorado cemetery cherub |
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| Alamosa, Colorado cemetery cherub |
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Nogales, Arizona cemetery grave angel.
The letters GR stand for "Gracias reciber" in Spanish
or in English "Thanks-receiving."
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