Lamba

The lamba (pronounce Lamb ) or lambahoany is the principal and emblematic part traditional Costume Malagasy, consisted of a part of Coton or more or less large Soie rectangular.

Significances

Carried indifferently by the men and the women, it accompanies that which carries it until in the tomb. Indeed, it is for the Madagascans an attribute of dignity or love: one exchanges lambas at the time of Fiançailles.

The men rather carry lambas into raw of dark color decorated of vertical lines, the women carry from there white or very coloured which they tie under the armpits, around the head or the size.

When it is related to the shoulders, a side is rejected behind left side. When this side is rejected right-sided, that means that the person is in Deuil.

Various types of lambas

There exist several kinds of lambas:

  • the lambahoany , part of printed cotton that one ties under the armpits or with the size (one finds it especially in the coastal regions).
  • the lamba arindrano , formal garment of noble, the rich person or the elderly.
  • the lambamena , which is the shroud.
  • the arindrano landihazo , composed of silk and cotton.
  • the jabo-landy , composed of silk and Raffia.
  • the salaka , kind of loincloth.

Geographical diffusion

The lamba essaimé in the Mascareignes and particularly with the island of the Meeting where it is an equivalent beachwear of the Paréo. The singer réunionnais Pierre Rosely made a resumption of the Malagasy Séga of Henri Ratsimbazafy white Lamba , which was a success of the Années 1980 in all the Indian Ocean.

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