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Sometimes these objects are called ex-votos, meaning “from a vow,” and are in the shape of the object that symbolizes what the vow was about.
Art exhibits in the United States have shown retablos ex-votos that depict the treacherous experience of immigrating to the United States.
The most obvious examples of religious folk art in Chicano culture are religious statues, the santos (saints), retablos (religious paintings), ex-votos, and paintings of La Virgen de Guadalupe.