‘From the Congo to the Crescent City’ display at the New Orleans Museum of Art, during installation, February 2013.

ID: 5749 ~ Source: Collection of UNO Department of Anthropology and Sociology. ~ Creator: Photograph by Ryan Gray.

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‘From the Congo to the Crescent City’ display at the New Orleans Museum of Art, during installation, February 2013.

In a fortuitous coincidence, the travelling exhibition “Kongo Across the Waters” was taking place at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and curators decided to feature the St. Peter Street Cemetery with a small separate installation, in addition to including the religious items from the 1984 excavations. NOMA also lent support to the reburial effort.

This file appears in: The St. Peter Street Cemetery: Rediscoveries and Reburials

The St. Peter Street Cemetery: Rediscoveries and Reburials

By D. Ryan Gray

On Saturday, April 18th, 2015, the human remains recovered from the St. Peter Street Cemetery in 2011 were again laid to rest, this time in a vault in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. This reinterment was commemorated with a memorial mass at St. Augustine…