Footage of Mamou Mardi Gras:
-Steve Riley on Wagon

1. Tape 1517 - Church Point Mardi Gras - Cooking the gumbo

2. Tapes 1518-1521 - Mamou Mardi Gras
-Footage of downtown Mamou Mardi Gras Festival
-Pine Grove Blues; Interviews with people in crowd; Une autre soir ennuient
-Capitaines and Mardi Gras riding through the crowd
-Dewey Balfa in Mardi Gras costume
-Interview with a Capitaine
-Mardi Gras Song; Womens' involvement in Mardi Gras

00:00:00 - Men are riding their horses for Church Point Madi Gras
00:01:26 - The band is playing Cajun music
00:04:39 - People are siging La danse de Mardi Gras
00:07:22 - Interview of Jasper Manuel captain of Mamou Mardi Gras who is explaining the tradition of this holiday, he is been running since 31 years
00:11:51 - The parade is starting
00:15:07 - The parade is going to peoples house to ask for some ingredient for the gumbo
00:15:48 - The parade is dancing for the people
00:18:00 - people are singing and dancing
00:19:59 - The parade is going to peoples house to ask for some ingredient for the gumbo
00:20:49 - People are singing and dancing
00:21:39 - People are signing la chanson de mardi gras de Basile
00:27:56 - A woman is cooking the gumbo
00:31:07 - The woman is explaining how she make her gumbo
00:34:46 - The woman say in Cajun french that she put oinions et persils in her gumbo
00:36:00 - The woman explain that she had 11 kids and lost 3 boys because time used to be rough
00:36:50 - She used to work in farm for the cotton, the potatoes and corn
00:38:26 - The woman is explaining that the gumbo is from Louisiana
00:40:03 - Footage of downtown Mamou Mardi Gras Festival
00:41:03 - A band is playing music and people are dancing
00:48:35 - People from Opelousas are saying that they came all the way to Mamou to have a good time
00:49:52 - Interview of James Fontenot who is a farmer and a musician is speaking about the traditional Mardi Gras in Mamou
00:54:56 - The parade is arriving downtown Mamou
01:04:23 - A man is explaining with French culture is so impotant in Mamou
01:08:10 - A man is explaining that woman don't run in Mamou Mardi Gras
01:09:52 - An Indian American man is speaking
01:12:57 - A man is giving his gumbo recipe
01:16:46 - A man who was running said he has the time of his life
01:18:09 - A Woman said it's a good thing that women don't run mardi gras or it will be trouble
01:22:24 - Footage of gumbo