Title
St Joseph Feast Day Mardi Gras Indian Celebration
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Description
Black masking Indians wearing handmade "suits" and masks parading on St. Joseph's feast night through the streets of the historic Treme neighborhood in New Orleans. This video recounts the celebration of Victor Harris's continuous masking and tribal leadership on the ritual night of procession, March 19, 2018 and the publication of Fire in Hole: The Spirit Work of Fi Yi Yi & Mandingo Warriors by Rachel Breunlin and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich from theUniversity of New Orleans Press, 2018..
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Publisher
Xavier University of Louisiana
City
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Keywords
Mardi Gras Indians, Super Sunday, St. Joseph Feast Day, New Orleans
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Digital Humanities | Social and Cultural Anthropology
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, "St Joseph Feast Day Mardi Gras Indian Celebration" (2020). Mystery in Motion: African American Spirituality in Mardi Gras. 17.
https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/17
Comments
Filmed and edited by Lexcie Thomas.
Produced and directed by Kim Vaz-Deville.
Time: 1:15 Minutes.