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NYTimes - Jeremy Stevenson, a chief within the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian tradition, just didn’t know if he could do it this year. After the city’s devastating coronavirus spike following Mardi Gras in 2020 and the COVID-related death of his cousin Keelian Boyd last year at age 37, Stevenson had a tough time just looking at the beads and the feathers he needed to make this year’s suit. Then, last spring, Stevenson heard a voice, his cousin’s, telling him, “You’ve got to do this.” And just after noon today, as members of his tribe, the Monogram Hunters, shook their tambourines and beat their drums, Stevenson emerged from a corner building in the city’s Tremé neighborhood wearing a five-foot-tall crown with five arrows of hot-pink feathers framing his head and a sequined suit of lime green, purple, blue and white, ornamented with crystals from chandeliers, shimmering silver broaches and oval prisms of glass. Welcome back to Mardi Gras!

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