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English: Costume design for New Orleans Mardi Gras parade of the "Mistick Krewe of Comus", 1873, by Charles Briton.

Theme for the parade was "Missing Links", a satire of Charles Darwin's writings, with prominent people caricatured as animals. This design caricatures Algernon Badger, Chief of the Metropolitan Police of New Orleans, as a bloodhound.

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1873 costume design for Krewe of Comus parade, New Orleans, by Charles Briton.

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Author Charles Briton (1841-1884)

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