“When people see us coming, some people running and screaming and crying, others come and greet us. On the right is one of New Orleans greatest costume designers. “Live a fruitful life, do unto others as they will undo to you,” he continued.īarnes said the gang exists to remind people of the literal meaning of Carnival - the shedding of the flesh. two of our favorite bonez, and today we are featuring Bonerella who is on the left. “Do not do drugs, domestic violence of any type, women, children, gun violence, all those things that will ultimate demise. “We go door-to-door singing, having a good time, but at the same time bringing serious social messages to people,” said Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, Skull and Bones Gang leader. NEW ORLEANS - Before the Indians, before the Zulu coconuts, before Rex, the Northside Skull and Bones Gang gets Mardi Gras started in Treme.įounders say the gang, the “original bone and skeleton gang,” started in 1819 in the 6th Ward-Treme.
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Let’s just hope this tradition carries along and we will have more skeletons to ring the doorbells and wish you Happy Mardi Gras with their scary riddles for many years to come. The Skull and Bone Gang is one of the oldest in the Mardi Gras celebration and as you can see from my photos, the members are not only adults, kids are defiantly becoming a big part of it (weird to think so since kids are often terrified of skeletons). In any case, the experience was defiantly worth the early-morning hour wake-up call. Thankfully, I was plenty awake, but the kids who found themselves opening the door at the sound of “Mornin’ it’s Mardi Gras, Wake Up” and then found this giant creature at their door steps telling them to behave otherwise death will take them with them…must have been an interesting way of waking up. If you do not stop your lying you are gonna have to come with me…”
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The stilt-wearing skeleton was the scariest of all especially because all he was doing was intruding in people’s car, house windows while chanting a riddle that went like this: “If you do not stop your killing, you are gonna have to come with me. Make your move to change your life now, or else you will become like me.” Go celebrate,” would say the chief of the Krewe while leading the pack around the winding roads in the neighborhood. just around the corner from our house in the Treme neighborhood waiting for the skeletons to awaken from the dead and start wondering around the New Orleans streets to bid the beginning of Mardi Gras Day. But in New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day this is the tradition and just about everyone loves it.Ĭhris and I set the alarm clock at 6 am and by 6:30 we were out and about in front of the Indians Heritage Museum off of Gov. You may not think it’s pleasant to be awaken by strange men dressed up in skeleton costumes, knocking at your door with a dead pig leg at 7 in the morning.