Zafimaniry Geometry

A genius for woodcarving

In another installment of blindly stumbling into situations that turn out years later to be of significant interest: in 2006, I was backpacking in the Madagascar highlands (as you do) and somehow signed up for a hike into Zafimaniry country.

The Zafimaniry (zah-fee-mah-NEER¹) are quite a small ethnic group of no more than 25,000 members today, largely iso…