Event created by richardmurray
This event began 02/17/2026 and repeats every year forever
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Black-History-Month-Mardi-Gras-2026-1300245780
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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
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages
Do you want a Coloring page made by me for your own use? Use the following link
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Single-Coloring-Page-1732448
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
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mardigras2026gif-1295641657
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))
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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
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]
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
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
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
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