A Woman of Madagascar

SOAS Library CWML V300.1860

Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada

Madagascar sent diplomatic missions to Europe in 1837, 1863, and 1886. On the 1837 visit to England, the Malagasy ambassadors are shown here dressed in akotifahana cloth.

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Title: A Woman of Madagascar
Creator: SOAS Library CWML V300.
Date Created: 1860
Provenance: From Portraits of the officers comprising the embassy from the Queen of Madagascar to England in the year 1837, taken from life and zincographed by J. W. Sperling. SOAS Library CWML V300
Original Source: http://www.rom.on.ca/en
Rights: Royal Ontario Museum

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