Brick Oven Grave
by Greg and Chrystal Mimbs
Title
Brick Oven Grave
Artist
Greg and Chrystal Mimbs
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This color photograph shows one graves at Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1 in New Orleans. Made from bricks, the tomb is designed to allow the body to be placed within the chamber, which in the New Orleans heat becomes oven-like. After enough time, the body becomes bones only, at which time another body may be placed in the tomb. The openings of the tombs have the look of a brick oven.
A black and white version of Brick Oven Grave is also available.
Several photographs of this historic New Orleans cemetery are also available in our New Orleans Gallery as well as our Cemeteries Gallery.
Brick Oven Grave was photographed by Chrystal Mimbs
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December 18th, 2014
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