Title
Interview with Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Big Queen of the Washitaw Nation and the Founder of Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective Reunion.
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Description
This is a video of an interview with Ausettua Amor Amenkum by Kim Vaz-Deville.
Ausetta Amor Amendum talks about the history of being associated with the Mardi Gras Indian culture, when she started, what it means to be a Big Queen, the suits she made and the connection between African Americans and the Native Americans.
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Publisher
Xavier University of Louisiana
City
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Keywords
Mardi Gras Indians, Mardi Gras Indian culture, Mardi Gras Indian suits
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.
Recommended Citation
Vaz-Deville, Kim and Thomas, Lexcie, "Interview with Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Big Queen of the Washitaw Nation and the Founder of Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective Reunion." (2020). Mystery in Motion: African American Spirituality in Mardi Gras. 13.
https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/13
Comments
Filmed and edited by Lexcie Thomas
Produced and directed by Kim Vaz-Deville.
Time: 26 minutes.