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image by Dave Martucci, 28 December 1999
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The purple/yellow/green triband with crown - which may appear either vertical or per bend sinister, & with the crown in either purple (usual) or green (rarely) - is indeed the MARDI GRAS celebration flag!!!! Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday) is celebrated - usually in New Orleans - before Lent.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 10 July 1999
Let me just add that, apart from New Orleans, this celebration is worldwide famous also in such places such as Venice or Rio de Janeiro, usually under the name "Carnaval", "Carnevale" also (which originated the different meaning english word "carnival"). "Mardi Gras" is the third and last of this three day celebration (called in portuguese "Fat Sunday", "Fat Monday" and "Fat Tuesday" -- the same as "Mardi Gras"), before sorrow Ash Wednesday (Lent?), the first of days of fast that precede Easter.
I draw attention to the Carnaval (Mardi Gras, not carnival) in Rio, where can be seen in all it's splendor the samba school's flags, usually gyronny of many. Other cities in Brazil (and even abroad) also follow this tradition.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 July 1999
image submitted by Dov Gutterman, 1 March 2001
source: webshots.com
While checking what's new at webshots.com I found this image at the new Mardi Gras Art collection titled as: Mardi Gras Pride.
Dov Gutterman, 1 March 2001
There is no "official" Mardi Gras flag, AFAIK. In New Orleans you can find all sorts of flags in the P-Y-V combination: vertical
horizontal, probably diagonal, with or without the crown, and the colors not always in the same order. But wave them they do!
Al Kirsch, 1 March 2001
image by Joe McMillan and António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 December 2023
Here’s a fun variation of the U.S. flag using the green-yellow-purple color
scheme of the New Orleans’ Mardi Gras celebrations, instead of the usual
red-white-blue.
I found a single example of this flag design, as the paintjob
on this heavily modded Volkswagen Typ 2, photographed in New Orleans in 2007:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarentoAntiflagBusAug07Front.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarengoAntiflagBusAug07BackLeft.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarengoAntiflagBusAug07Distance.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarentoAntiflagBusAug07FrontLeft.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarentoAntiflagBusAug07RightSideBack.jpg
but there might be more examples.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11
December 2023
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 13 December 2023
Not the same thing, but
https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments showed a somewhat similar flag
in Minnesota this year.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 December
2023
That flag is derived from a similar flag used by the fans of New Orleans Saints football club by changing the club colors with the Mardi Gras colors.
Sources:
[1] American Black and Gold Flag website:
http://www.americanblackandgoldflag.com
[2] Flickr - Photo from New
Orleans, on 2011-03-06:
https://www.flickr.com/photos
[3] Flickr - Photo from New Orleans, on
2012-02-05:
https://www.flickr.com/photos
[4] Flickr - Photo from New Orleans, on
2016-02-07:
https://www.flickr.com/photos
[5] Rick Holmes' blog - Entry on
2018-02-16:
https://www.rickholmes.net/new-page-1 (image)
[6] Flickr - Photo from New Orleans, on 2019-03-03:
https://www.flickr.com/photos
[7] WWL-TV
television station website - Report on 2020-02-06 (video displaying the flag
@00:36-00:40)
https://www.wwltv.com
[8] Alamy photo archive - Photo from Mobile, Alabama on 2021-02-19:
https://www.alamy.com
[9] Alamy photo archive - Photo from Mobile, Alabama on 2021-02-19:
https://www.alamy.com
Tomislav Todorovic, 13
December 2023