There are a thousand reasons to travel to Madagascar. One of them is the discovery of Malagasy culture. Funeral art is a facet. In this domain, each ethnic group has its specificities. Special mention for the mahafaly funerary art.

Mahafaly are nomads. Although living mainly in the south of the Big Island, members of this community move from time to time depending on the harvest, depending on the season. This is probably one of the reasons why, Nowadays, burial wealthier are erected in the vicinity of main roads. The passing tourist has something to admire the tombs mahafaly because such buildings are all about the life of the deceased.
Pasteur, the Mahafaly attaches particular importance zebu. These are signs of wealth and nobility. So, the top of the tombs are decorated with horns of zebu whose number is based on the fortune of the deceased's notability. In funerary art mahafaly, each essential object exchange with a zebu. the aloalo, le obelisks, tsifankazo the coffin and minting against zebu. Every object tells the life of the deceased. mangrove better, for example, is a wooden sculpture representing all activities in his lifetime.
Behind mahafaly tombs lies another life, that of Ancestors. This nomadic people believe in eternal life. A person who dies does not die, it passes to another life as one of their sayings saying : " A house, it's for life ; a tomb, it is for eternity ".