Raitra Marosoratra

2021 231.1 x 247.7 cm (91 x 97 1/2 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.167

This textile is a contemporary version of a lamba akotifahana (a weft-patterned silk mantle). These pricey garments were a fleeting, secular nineteenth-century fashion. Weavers created them for the elites of the Merina Kingdom (c. 1540–1897), whose royals gave them as diplomat...

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