Title

Interview with Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes, Big Chief of the Northside Skull and Bones Gang.

Authors

Kim Vaz-Deville, Xavier University of LouisianaFollow
Lexcie Thomas, Xavier University of LouisianaFollow

Files

Description

Intervew of Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes, Big Chief of Northside Skull and Bones Gang, a Mardi Gras Indian group by Kim Vaz-Deville. Bruce Barnes talked about himcoming to New Orleans from Arkansas, his grandmother who was a "voodoo queen" and her influence on his life, how he started masking, the spiritual connection he felt with African culture and traditions, the history of the group in 1819 and the pageantry and traditions of parading during carnival.

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Publisher

Xavier University of Louisiana

City

New Orleans, Louisiana

Keywords

Mardi Gras Indians, Northside Skull and Bonge Gang (New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians), African American culture, New Orleans

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Digital Humanities

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Comments

Filmed and edited by Lexcie Thomas.

Produced and directed by Kim Vaz-Deville.

Time: 42 minutes.

Recommended Citation

Vaz-Deville, Kim and Thomas, Lexcie, "Interview with Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes, Big Chief of the Northside Skull and Bones Gang." (2020). Mystery in Motion: African American Spirituality in Mardi Gras. 12.
https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/12