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Mardi Gras throws are strings of beads, doubloons, cups, and other trinkets passed out or thrown from the floats in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parades to spectators lining the streets. The gaudy plastic jewelry, toys, and other mementos [are] tossed to the crowds from parading floats. Mardi Gras celebrations in other Gulf Coast cities, such as Mobile and Lafayette, have adopted the custom.
Who are the Mardi Gras Indians? Beads and other plastic trinkets have been given out during Mardi Gras since the 1920s and are also known as Mardi Gras throws, according to National Geographic. Plastic coins known as doubloons and designed by the artist H. Alvin Sharpe have also been thrown since the 1960s.