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Phoebe Jones / WWNO
Originally published on February 15, 2021 7:37 pm
Among the many groups sitting this Carnival season out are the city’s Mardi Gras Indians.
They’d typically take to the streets wearing brand new costumes, showcasing a year s worth of labor. Now, those suits sit unfinished in living rooms and on kitchen tables.
Reporter Aubri Juhasz spoke with Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias from his home in New Orleans East.
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For Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. of the Wild Magnolias, masking has taken on a new meaning.
“Mask-up is putting a mask across your face, but on a normal year mask-up for us would mean put on the Indian suit,” Dollis said.