Skull + Bone

Directed by Victoria Rivera · Starring Bruce Barnes · 2017

Before dawn every Mardi Gras, New Orleans' Northside Skull and Bone Gang, dressed as skeletons, wake the city with drums and warnings against violence.

A vivid glimpse of a two-century-old New Orleans ritual that is both eerie and life-affirming.

For two hundred years every Mardi Gras has started the same way: Dressed as skeletons, armed with bones, The Northside Skull and Bone Gang wake the city before dawn with drums, chants and ceremonial knocking on doors to

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