Big Chief Demond Melancon wears his Red Cloud suit amongst other members of Mardi Gras Indian tribes ... when free men of color began wearing masks, feathered headdresses and colors inspired ...

In New Orleans for the Mardi Gras, I, surely ... A group of Marie Antoinettes dressed in her signature uncomfortable hoop skirts. A lithe woman in crocodile mask and a wagging scaly tail dangling ...

I knew not the art of catching a throw listed by Vincent Spear in his 1969 pamphlet ... wiped the Vaseline off her hands and waved her still-greasy hands. A Mardi Gras Masque Bal hosted by ...