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SYMBOLIC ALLEGORY

IN THE REAPER'S SHADOW: Personifications of Death In Gravestone Are
Alma Sinan

Allegorical images are products of human ideas, expressed in symbols. The carved images used on memorials convey attitudes toward death of those who selected them. Photos from the colonial era to the present.

2004 24 pp. 23 illus. ISBN 0-930194-68-3 Pap, $12.95 Download Order Form