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Cloth
The different regions in Madagascar have their own weaving techniques. The Mahafaly and the Antandroy weave decorations of tin beads, often in a zebu pattern. Weaving is a craft for women. This cloth is a so-called lamba. A lamba is in fact any cloth that has not been processed into a particular model. Lamba are used as shawls and scarves, but there are also special lamba to wrap the dead, the lam…
Type of item
- Object Type: fabric
- Textile
- fabric fragment
Providing institution
Aggregator
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- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 0-0
- 0
Provenance
- 1997-10-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/528600
- AM-579-6
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- black
- purple
- yellow
- textile techniques
Year
- 0
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z