Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in the arts and related occupations]
8. [people in the arts]
9. [people in the performing arts]
10. performing artists
11. maskers

Narrower term/s

• Mardi Gras Indians

Anotations

Scope note:

Maskers, primarily of African descent, who masquerade as Native Americans for Carnival parades in various cities and nations including New Orleans, Toronto, London, Brooklyn, Brazil, and Haiti and other island nations of the Caribbean. They are renowned for their elaborate, vividly-colored, hand-made costumes.