# @60minutes on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/video/7625427577762614542
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/62544117-60minutes-tiktok
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/020aa4140d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-04-05T23:53:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 60 Minutes (@60minutes) — https://gondola.cc/60minutes

## Caption

Big Chief Demond Melancon sews beads the size of chia seeds, stitches rhinestones with dental floss, and adorns it with feathers to make his extravagant suit to be debuted on Mardi Gras day. He says he works from 6 a.m. to midnight every day. “Without these beads I couldn't breathe,” he says. His suit this year cost $25,000 to make. It tells the story of the Amistad, a slave ship seized by the captive Africans in 1839, led by a man called Cinqué. One of the panels shows when the Africans won their freedom in a case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. #neworleans #art #mardigras #handcrafted #blackculture 

## Stats

- **Views:** 11,500
- **Likes:** 1,849
- **Shares:** 98
- **Comments:** 40

## Tags

mardigras, blackculture, art, neworleans, handcrafted

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