Like a pagan altar, a wire box lays, slightly askew, before the aging marble of a tomb at Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in the Garden District of New Orleans. The box is filled with oyster shells, Mardi Gras beads, and dead leaves emphasizing the animist aspects of the contents of the frame as alms for the dead. The supplicant who crafted this endeavored to decorate it with serpentine cable ornamenting the diminutive shrine anticipating a restoration of a right relationship with sacred order.