This statue is on display at Nuestras Raices Community Center, on Thursday, October, 30, 2025, is preparation for Day of the Dead events this weekend in Spokane.
On a square black velvet cloth, Lesly Ellis carefully shapes grains of rice in honor of the Mayan calendar symbol for this year’s Día de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead.
The symbol changes each year; this one, she said, represents health – honoring ancestors and keeping illness and bad spirits away…