Caption

New Orleans, Louisiana - The Mardi Gras Indians' Super Sunday parade. African-Americans create elaborate costumes for the annual event to honor Native Americans who, during slavery, helped helped people escape and gave them refuge

Date

Mar 16, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West

Reference

BRK25E42_499

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No

Property release

No

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Rights managed

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63,3Mb (5,6Mb) / 19,2in x 12,8in / 5760 x 3840 (300dpi)

Keywords

color colors colour colours paint celebration celebrations festivity history escape escapes together with each other friend friends ethnic group ethnic groups Native American Native Americans Indian Indians North America USA United States US-America United States of America America costume costumes disguise cladding native natives native people indigenous parade parades dressed up disguised costumed masquerade masquerading dressed as dressed-up custom customs tradition traditions typical characteristic traditional traditionally American historic historical historically event events dark-skinned dark skinned festive festively honour honours honor celebrate celebrating celebrates Afro-American African American black American Afro-Americans African-American Ethnicity African-American person persons Human being People human humans individual individuals solidarity bonding US-American native indigenous natives local locals slavery slaveries friendship friendships ethnic ethnical ethnicity one person 1 person single person indigenous people indigenous peoples Louisiana New Orleans annually annual yearly