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
12. Black Indians

Anotations

Scope note:

African American male maskers, usually of the working class, who sing, dance and parade in unofficial associations or "tribes" in New Orleans's Mardi Gras and St. Joseph's Day parades. Their costumes are comprised of large feather headdresses, moccasin-style boots, and aprons with patterns sewn in such materials as sequins, rhinestones, glass beads, ribbons velvet, and ostrich plumes.