Midnight Robber (Trinidad Carnival Mas Character)
The Midnight Robber is one of the most iconic and beloved traditional masquerade characters of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. He is a bombastic, theatrical outlaw who combines the swagger of a Wild West gunslinger with the oratory tradition of a West African griot (storyteller). He wears an oversized wide-brimmed hat (often shaped like a coffin or a crown), a flowing black cape decorated with symbols of death and destruction (skulls, crossbones), black satin shirt and pantaloons, and carries a wooden money box shaped like a coffin, a dagger or pistol, and a whistle. His signature feature is Rob