IDNO

P.56890.

Description

“Imerina, Madagascar
Probably the bundle of ancestor’s bones newly wrapped in silk 'lamba' at famadihana & lying on mat which will presently be fought for & eaten in fragments by women de-siving children. The white bead decoration & normal manner of carrying lamba of the assistants indicates that this in not a funeral.
Man half shown on right had appears to be commencing with piece of silk torn from the 'lamba' at the head as is customary. There are 6 ties, for head rest, 2 limbs of arms & 2 of legs.” [Danielli's annotation]

Place

E Africa; Madagascar; Imerina

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Peetz, E. Otto (Mr)

Collector / Expedition

Date

post 1935

Collection Name

Source

Danielli, Mary (Mrs)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.56887 to P.56896. were found inside the envelope now numbered C268/1/3/1/ which was inside C268/1/3/. This was inside C268/1/, or the first drawer of the entire green cabinet, which was formerly numbered as batch 144 and now numbered C268/.

Photographer: In Danielli, Mary. “The ‘Mpanandro’ (Maker of Days) of Imerina, Madagascar.” Folklore, vol. 60, no. 4, 1949, pp. 375–387. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1256965, p.76 is the following credit to the images published: "This photograph was very kindly lent by Mr. E. O. Peetz of the Friends Service Council in Madagascar." [JD 10/10/2019]

Photographer: Otto Peetz was "anti-fascist German who had wed a British woman [Edith Gregory] ... Peetz had fled Nazi Germany for England in 1935. Sent to Madagascar by the Society of Friends, he was initially interned as an enemy alien at the outset of hostilities. ... Peetz faced the possibility of becoming stateless ... when his passport expired in September 1940. Even after his liberation in July 1940, his situation remained precarious..." (Eric T. Jennings, Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar, (Springer, 2017) p.145). [JD 10/10/2019]

Bibliographical Reference: Mary Danielli (1949) The “Mpanandro” (Maker of Days) of Imerina, Madagascar, Folklore, 60:4, 375-387, DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.1949.9717956. [JD 10/10/2019]