Courir de Mardi Gras Doll

by Seaux-N-Seau Soileau

Title

Courir de Mardi Gras Doll

Artist

Seaux-N-Seau Soileau

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

I made this Courir de Mardi Gras doll. I did not use any commercial pattern. My mother and grandmother taught me how to make my own patterns. The doll has button joints. The costume is made in the traditional Courir de Mardi Gras style complete with screen mask. I began making Courir de Mardi Gras costumes when I was a teen-ager. My grandmother taught me how to make the mask and my mother taught me how to make the rest of the costume. Today I am still making costumes and am passing on this tradition to my own grandchildren. The rocker the doll sits in is over 60 years old and has rocked children from three generations in my family.
The Courir de Mardi Gras is the traditional Mardi Gras of the Cajun and Creole people in rural South Central and South Western Louisiana. It involves costumed horseback riders who go through the community collecting ingredients for a community gumbo. The Mardi Gras participants are led by a Captain who does not wear a costume like the participants but can be distinguished from the crowd by his cape. He is the first to arrive at each home and ask the home owners if they would welcome the Mardi Gras. If the home owners agree the captain waves his flag and the Mardi Gras participants sing, dance, and entertain their host in hopes that the will receive ingredients for the community gumbo. The favorite ingredient is live chickens that the participants must catch. The Courir de Mardi Gras attracts people from all over the world to rural communities in Louisiana each year.
Featured in the following Fine Art America's groups:
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