Black History Month Mardi Gras 2026

 

 

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Black History Month Mardi Gras 2026

Let The Good Time Roll!

 

While honoring Black history, let's celebrate Mardi Gras. No where does Black history plus Mardi Gras blend more than New Orleans. The cultural element is the headwrap.

The first image is a coloring page of Poldinha , bold feminity, my original character, a black woman of New Orleans in a multitemporal dress representing fashions from different times in New Orleans, with a tignon shaped like the Adinkra BiNkaBi, or no one should bite the other. She has three flags representing Black history in the usa as part of her fashion. She is holding a cornucopia, a horn of plenty, for the feast before Lent. The little boy next to her is playing a vest frottoir/washboard while sanding.

The second image is a set of headwrap coloring images.

A little point

The tignon at one time was enforced by the governor into law in Louisiana as a mark on free women of color so that their status as free women while black was visible in opposition to white women, who filed complaints about the beauty of free women of color. The tignon as the referrals below prove show headwraps have a long history as dress wear for Black women, that was started before enslavement to whites, survived through enslavement to whites and exist today, whether through the intricate hats worn by black women in churches throughout the southern usa states or various ceremonies from the lavagem or baths to yemoja plus other orisha in salvador, bahia, brasil and quilombo communities in northern south America or anywhere in the Caribbean where it is synonymous with the marketplace.

 

Coloring pages gallery

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Mardi Gras Die craft challenge in @CRArtisanCrafts

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Mardi-Gras-Die-1286556302

Mardi Gras Die

Feb 3, 2026

Laissez le bon temps rouler or Let the good

 

MArdi Gras 2026 Stamp

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Mardi Gras Die craft page

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mardi-Gras-Die-1294084920

Laissez le bon temps rouler

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INFORMATION REFERRALS

Tignon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tignon

art from page

A West Indian Flower Girl and Two other Free Women of Color c. 1769

Agostino Brunias (1728 - 1796) – Artist (Italian, active in Britain (1758-1770; 1777-1780s))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agostino_Brunias_-_A_West_Indian_Flower_Girl_and_Two_other_Free_Women_of_Color_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

 

more information

https://wams.nyhistory.org/colonies-and-revolution/spanish-and-french-colonies/fashionable-rebellion/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Signare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signare

art from page

Negress of quality from the Island of Saint Louis in Senegal, accompanied by her slave. 1788

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hommes_femmes_et_scènes_du_Sénégal-Jacques_Grasset_de_Saint_Sauveur_mg_8495.jpg

 

Negress of quality from the Island of Saint Louis in Senegal, accompanied by her slave. Illustration from Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus, Paris, 1788, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810). Aquatint.

1890

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SignaresBal.jpg

 

Un bal de Signares (mulâtresses) à Saint-Louis (Sénégal) (illustrations de Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Colonel Frey - Pl. en dble page après p.11 [Cote : Réserve A 200 386]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:La_Signare_de_Gorée_avec_ses_esclaves-Musée_de_la_Compagnie_des_Indes.jpg

 

Français : La Signare de Gorée avec ses esclaves, gravure polychrome d'Adolphe d'Hastrel. Musée de la Compagnie des Indes (Lorient)

Tignon Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tignon_law

art from page

Portrait of Betsy c. 1837

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Betsy.jpg

 

Portrait of a free woman of color (previously titled Portrait of Betsy) by François Fleischbein (1801/1803–1868), oil on canvas. This version is following restoration efforts in 2017.

more info

https://www.ceeceesclosetnyc.com/blogs/news/the-tignon-laws-how-black-women-in-louisiana-turned-oppression-into-fashion

Placage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaçage

art from page

c. 1867

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FashionableMarquisB.jpg

 

from Edouard Marquis - New Orleans, 1867. African American Creole woman in fashionable dress of the era and parasol, with another woman in working class clothing, possibly her servant.

Fashionable colored women c. 1867

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Creole_women_of_color_out_taking_the_air,_from_a_watercolor_series_by_Édouard_Marquis,_New_Orleans,_1867.jpg

 

from a series of watercolors by Edouard Marquis

Marchande

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchande

Zydeco music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zydeco

Vest Frottoir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vest_frottoir

Adinkra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adinkra_symbols

Gele

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gele_(head_tie)

image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMG-20230221-WA0012.jpg

 

Flags

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth_flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_American_Heritage_Flag

Mae Bernadette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mãe_Bernadete

Bernadette is female of Bernard which means ber/bear nard/brave or brave as a bear