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  12274 Elf Owl Lane                  Phone: 951-924-8458

Moreno Valley, Ca.    92555        

                          Email: abe@sturgisfeathers.com

 

   

 

                  WELCOME TO

Mardi Gras In New Orleans

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

IN MEMORY OF

Dedicated to my best Friend Joe Adams one of the Best Maskers in the City, you had to sew to beat Joe.

One of the most innovative Indian Costume designer of his day, Much of what he created is still influencing the Mardi Gras Indians Costumes today, This section is dedicated to all my friends that have left us and are now at PEACE

"JOE PETE"

Big Chief

Seminoles

 

 

1943 - 1992

Joe Adams "Joe Pete"

Big Chief

   

 

Flag Boy Joe

White Eagles Last Year Before becoming Big Chief "SEMINOLES"

 

 

 

 

Last Year as Flag Boy 

White Eagles

 

   

 

  

 

 

Big Chief "Jake " Gerald Melon

White Eagles

 

      

 

 

White Eagles

2nd Chief "Felton Brown

 

 

WHITE EAGLES

Spy Boy "NAT"

        

 

Guardians Of The Flame

Big Chief "Donald" Harrison

9th Ward Hunters

BIG CHIEF "RUDY" Bushier

 

 

Melton Bapsitise and Tuba Fats

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mardi Gras Indian's on Fat Tuesday / Saint Joseph night and Supper Sunday.

 

Spy Boy Dwight Woods

Seminoles

 

 

 

 

Nelson Thompson 

Flag Boy White Eagles

    

 

 

"Lil" Walter Cook

"Big Chief"

Creole Wild West

 

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Big Chief Iron Horse

 

 

 

Spy Boy

Duke

 

         Mardi Gras 2001 in " TREME "

 

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Super Sunday 2001

Super Sunday is one of several days that the Mardi Gras Indians "Tribes/Gangs" come together from all over the City and gather on Bayou St John and Orleans Ave., in the 6th ward for the long trek to Hunters Field a Neighborhood park in the 7th Ward, The parade is very long and has Brass Bands, Mardi Gras Indians, Social and Pleasure Clubs all with Second-liners. These parades allow the people in the Neighborhoods of the city to see nearly every tribe [ which is impossible to do on Mardi Gras ] that were on the "STREETS" for the holiday It is at these parades that you really get to see the intricate bead/sequined and stone work that go into making these elaborate costumes. The air is filled with pulsating beats on Tambourine's , drums and cow bells, primal tones and rhythmic chants from the Indians and earthy Jazz & Brass marching Bands, Playing music that won't let your " Feet " fail you now, on this Soirée' through the community. It is this rich and deep rooted culture that is the soul and Heritage of the Black communities of New Orleans.

Big Chief "Rudy"

9th Ward Hunters

 

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Ray Blazio

Big Chief Hatchet

 

 

            

 

                                           Super Sunday on the West Bank

Big Chief Hatchet

 

 

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Jermaine Devezin

"Flag Boy"

 Red Hawk Hunters

9th Ward

 

 

 

Buggie Fats Hooking his brother Jermaine  up

 

 

 

The Los Angeles Connection

 

Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls, Skeletons, Brass Bands

"BIG CHIEF DREW"

THE WILD TREME

Andrew Justin "BIG CHIEF DREW" Wild Treme Indian Gang from Los Angles, CA

Chief Drew comes home to New Orleans with a whole entourage of people from New Orleans that live in La for the Mardi Gras, consisting of Second Liners, a brass Band, Baby Dolls, Skeletons and his tribe the Wild Treme He is the only Mardi Gras Indian Chief that has been awarded the Keys to the city twice, He has been Invited to put his entourage in Zulu's parade 1996,98 and the year 2000. True to the Indian culture he has not forgot his roots in Treme where he was born and raised. Chief Drew has been masking Indian since he was Five years Old, When he moved to Chicago where he and his brother started masking Indian with their gang the Wild Treme, After moving to Los Angles He kept the Mardi Gras Indian culture alive by starting dancing with the LaLa , he started the first second line group (New Orleans shake-em-down second liners, Social and Pleasure club, to ever hit the streets of Los Angles CA. And was the first Mardi Indian Chief and Gang to parade on Crenshaw Ave to Lemert Park, were it is celebrated like in Congo Square in New Orleans. The people was amazed to see true beauty , They had never seen A Mardi Gras Indian in LA before. He’s so cold and pretty that he could cripple a stick and kill a brick. Chief Drew was so honored to have Abraham Sturgis, from the 9th ward New Orleans LA, Chief council of the Seminole Indian Gang in New Orleans, new Chief council for the Wild Treme of Los Angeles CA Came to ring it and sing it with his gang, It was something to see and hear, they where rolling Indian style. Also Al Harrison Chief Scout of the Creole Wild West of NOLA and also Chief Scout of Wild Treme of Los Angeles. The first set of pictures are before they left LA for New Orleans .He has been Invited to put his entourage in Zulu's parade. True to the Indian culture he has not forgot his roots in Treme where he was born and raised. The first set of pictures are before they left LA for New Orleans. True to the Indian culture he has not forgot his roots in Treme where he was born and raised. The first set of pictures are before they left LA for New Orleans. 

 

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Andrew Justin "BIG CHIEF DREW" Wild Treme Indian Gang from Los Angles, CA

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Wild Treme In New Orleans Mardi Gras 2000

 

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Riding with Zulu and getting the keys to the City of New Orleans

 

 

 

 

 

Chief Drew's Crown for 2000

 

 

 

Second Liners From Los Angeles

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   

 

 

Anyone with pictures from Mardi Gras 2001,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, Super Sunday, St Joseph Night, or Second lines in New Orleans. that want to post their pictures on our site are WELCOME.

         

                                       

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

          

 

           

 

 

 

 

   

 

    

 

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