New Orleans: Mardi Gras Museum (page 9/10)

A closer shot

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Whipping
In most runs, captains carry leather whips or braided burlap whips called “quoits”, mostly for a symbolic show of control as well as for mock anticks. In a few communities, however, whipping rituals, perhaps descended from the ritual flagellation of medieval Europe intended to atone for the sins of society, are central and speak more to the penance [...]les soldats” (soldiers). Maskers in Kinder also walk and pretend to whip each other with rolled burlap sacks. In the Cacherie-Gheens area and Choupique, disguised young men armed with willow switches pursue even younger boys, who fall humbly to their knees and obey the captain’s command to begin praying. The maskers surround the supplicants and deliver blows just hard enough to sting. [more...]

Cajun Triangle 1

Cajun Triangle
1999
Bon Cajun Instruments
Iota, Louisiana [more...]

Cajun Triangle 2

Cajun Triangle
1999
Bon Cajun Instruments
Iota, Louisiana [more...]

Fool in the tree

Another shot.

Muriel’s

A restaurant (it’s not at all bad, we ate there on another occasion) seen from the museum window.

Museum hallway 1

A hallway with a polished floor at the Mardi Gras museum

Museum hallway 2

A hallway with a polished floor at the Mardi Gras museum

Sea-horse Mardi Gras Costume 1

Seahorse Costume Made by Jim Schexnayder 1992 [more...]

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