20 Best Things We Saw at New Orleans Jazz Fest 2014

The bonecos gigantes – Brazilian Portugese for giant paper mâché heads, usually crafted by hand – were perhaps the most eye-popping feature of this year’s Cultural Exchange Pavillion, in which a different culture contributing to New Orleans' rich ancestry is spotlighted each year. For 2014, the spot was renamed Casa do Brasil, and a series of Carnival-style parades involving the pictured bonecos – similar in spirit to the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans, following the same Roman Catholic traditions – took place throughout the festival grounds.