TRIP TO MADAGASCAR ISLAND

[Radu Transylvanicus]

Another try to put some more on the table:

A brief history lesson and a idealised "savages of Madagascar gravure" with WEAPONS (yeeeyyy...)
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/exh...ky/unifier.htm

A mysterious shieldfrom Madagascar:
http://www.remnantsofritual.com/gallery/070.html

An interesting account of slave trade and history in Madagascar mentioning Malagasy (word for native Madagascarian) spears:
http://ritesofpassageblog.blogspot.c...ry-part-1.html

[Luc LEFEBVRE]

Go to AMNH site:
http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/...ica_public.htm

choice Madagascar & knife

Luc

[Luc LEFEBVRE]

But I think the nicest knife from Madagascar is this kind of from the BARA people.
You can see a man sitting on the handle with a zebu and a crocodile, which are the reincarnation of ancestors, there is also a duck at the pommel, this bird is the intercessor between the life & death and a fecondity symbol.
Note that in this knife the blade is not in the axe of the handle.
Made of bronze and iron.

Luc