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Savika

Savika: photograph by Obiniaina RANDRIANADRASANA
Photo: Obiniaina RANDRIANADRASANA, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Zebu-wrestling.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Madagascar.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of River Valleys and First Cities (about 3000 to 1000 BCE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Africa: Great Lakes and Indian Ocean.

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