Album of people and places in Madagascar "made by natives" [Malagasy peoples], with a "Tati" bark cover

The album is inscribed "This album was made by natives of Madagascar. The bark of the "Tati" was used for the cover". Groups include: 'native' orchestra; Girls' school class; wheel wrights. People include: Radama, Ranavalona I, and Ranavalona II (prints of drawings/paintings); Ranavalona III; women...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/13/10/01/007 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Madagascar/Photographs/Box 3
Date(s) of creation: c.1870 - c.1890
Level: File
Format: Archive           
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples
African peoples

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.13.10.01.007
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Madagascar/Photographs/Box 3
callnumber CWM/LMS/13/10/01/007
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/13/10/01/007
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/13/10/01/007
prefix_number 007
title Album of people and places in Madagascar "made by natives" [Malagasy peoples], with a "Tati" bark cover
scb_date_creation c.1870 - c.1890
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 1 album containing 77 sepia prints (some in several pieces, some loose in the album)
format Archive
description The album is inscribed "This album was made by natives of Madagascar. The bark of the "Tati" was used for the cover". Groups include: 'native' orchestra; Girls' school class; wheel wrights. People include: Radama, Ranavalona I, and Ranavalona II (prints of drawings/paintings); Ranavalona III; women (including "slave") in mourning; blacksmith; Indian magician; musician (playing harp); "civilised" Hova woman; rice farmers of Betsileo [province, now Fianarantsoa]; "cripple at Antsirabe" [disabled person]; Governor of Tamatave [Toamasina] and his wife. Activities featured include: girls playing "house"; women sewing; Betsimisaraka dancing and in boats; playing music; washing gold; playing Malagasy chess; listening to a proclamation; market in Tananarive [Antananarivo]; class and manual training in French government school; children dancing; children playing soldiers; weighing the baby; cutting hair with the broken glass of a bottle. Other places or buildings featured include: the Farariana River; the Nosivola River; Ikopa River; railway, Perinet; Antananarivo, including Queen's Lake, Ambohipotsy Church, tomb near palace, park, and race course; Zoma, "Friday's market"; Faravohitra; Silver Palace; Tritriva (crater lake); Votamandry; Diego Suarez [Antsirana], including the post office; Andevoranto; Koma; Mandraka forest; road at Angavo; ancient gate in the walls of Antananarivo; on the Betsiboka River; Tamatave, including sea front boulevard; Friend's Mission School at Ambohijatovo; Norwegian Mission Church at Ambatovinaky; Movantanana; Nossybe Island; "lunatic asylum", Anjanamasina. Also includes: model of "typical village"; railway through rice fields; boa constrictor; "Billie" (cat). Prints taken by or received from individuals including: [John] Houlder.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright probably expired
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number 7
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs FRAGILE PLEASE TAKE CARE WHEN CONSULTING THIS ALBUM
scb-callnumber-first Indigenous peoples
African peoples
topic Indigenous peoples
African peoples
topic_facet Indigenous peoples
African peoples
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0013.0010.0001.00007

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