Photographs, Madagascar, Antanarivo, Madagascar people, landscapes, c. 1960s

A Sakalava singer, Belo-sur-Tsiribihina. At Ankirondro on the Tsiribiniha, the portrait of a Sakalava queen standing on her grave. Inland from Fort Dauphin, a boatload of Antanosy on an anecdotal, biographical tomb post. In the Taboo Forest of the tombs of the Mahafaly kings and queens, Aloalo--tomb posts, soul perches. The Highlands: a one-family house designed by Jean Laborde. Ambatolamphy--a Merina "cold house," the long-term residence of mummified ancestors. Diego-Suarez, a red port on a blue bay. Didiera trees in a forest of euphorbias. Majunga--the old streets give way to the town planners. A chameleon on a fence in Majunga. Ilafy: a wooden pleasure house for Radama II. Mole 4, Tamatave, the chief port. Fianarantsoa: bucranes of wrought iron and gilt on the doors of the Palais de Justice. Ampanihy--a kid in the cattle market, one Easter. A baobab, the big-bellied mother of the forest. A lemur catta in the zoo of Tsimbazaza. A Betsileo cenotaph, monoliths, and zebu horns. Madagascar politician, Philibert Tsiranana, first president of Madagascar (1960-1972). Planting rice in the highland valley of Betafo, in January. Antalaha: First quality vanilla beans, cured, bundled, ready for sale. In the southern highlands, on a summer day in January. A Betsileo rice farmer, near Fianarantsoa. Ambalavao--"Newtown," built of early 19th century red bricks. The French call this granite rock "La Brioche," as in "Let them eat cake." Nosy-Be: peppercorns in cluster. Ranohira--high noon in the Horombe. Green beans on the vanilla orchid vine. Tananarive, town house, c. 1900. Ampanihy, country house, c. 1960. A tamarind in Belo-sur-Tsiribiniha. A Sakalava matron, of Nosy-Be. Near Morondava, on a sand dune, the tombs of the Vezo kings. A Vezo fisherman, off Morondava. A Betsimisaraka in vanilla, in Antalaha. Tananarive, February flowers in the Zoma. Fort Dauphin: beyond the radioactive sands and the shark-infested sea lies the south pole. Tananarive: The Queen's Palace, where once a blue forest grew. Mahafaly housewives in American housedresses, fetching water from a spring on the flamingoed beach of the Bay of St. Augustine.