IDNO

P.56896.

Description

“Imerina & probably all Madagascar.
Bringing home for burial the bones of a man who died & was temporarily buried away from home. The skull is left behind: it being considered essential to have the 8 long bones of arms & legs. The dead man’s spade is attached to the bundle & the two pairs of sandals are probably also his. Men of porter rank would not wear these & still do not.” [Danielli's annotation]

Place

E Africa; Madagascar; Imerima

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]