New Orleans' Performers for Folklife Festival

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Object Details

Author

Spitzer, Nicholas R

Subject

Festival of American Folklife

Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Notes

Featured in TORCH, June 1985.

Summary

Chief Charles Taylor from New Orleans leads daily parades at the 1985 Folklife Festival. Taylor belongs to the White Cloud Hunter tribe, a group of black men who dress for Mardi Gras in resplendently stylized garb of Indian warriors.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: June 1985

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1985

Standard number

95-1195

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Person, candid

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Taylor, Charles

African Americans

Cooks

Folk festivals

Mardi Gras

White Cloud Hunter Tribe

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_8401