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aloalo (funerary sculpture, <sculpture by function>, ... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) |
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Note: Tall Mahafaly wooden sculptures in Madagascar, placed in small groups at tombs, carved with human and animal figures and geometric openwork. |
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aloalo (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
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aloalo (Portuguese-P,D,L,PN)
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aloalo (Spanish-P,D,U,SN)
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aloalo (Dutch-P,D,U,U)
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aloalo (French-P,D,U,U)
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aloalo (Italian-P,D,U,U)
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aloala (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
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halohalo (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
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馬哈法利長木雕 (C,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
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ma hā fǎ lì cháng mù diāo (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
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ma ha fa li chang mu diao (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)
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ma ha fa li ch'ang mu tiao (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,U)
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Aloalo (C,U,German-P,D,SN)
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Facet/Hierarchy Code: V.VC |
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Chinese (traditional) ..... 馬哈法利族長木雕,置於墓群裡的木雕,刻有人類或動物的肖像及迴紋細工圖紋。 |
Dutch ..... Hoge houten sculpturen van de Mahafaly, in kleine groepen bij tombes geplaatst en voorzien van houtsnijwerk in de vorm van menselijke en dierlijke figuren en opengewerkte geometrische patronen. |
German ..... Große Holzskulptur der Mahafaly, die in kleinen Gruppen an Gräbern aufgestellt wird und menschliche, tierische sowie geometrische Erscheinungsformen hat. |
Portuguese ..... Esculturas altas de madeira Mahafaly colocadas em pequenos grupos em tumbas, esculpidas com figuras animais e humanas e com ornamentos geométricos. |
Spanish ..... Esculturas de madera Mahafaly altas ubicadas en pequeños grupos en tumbas, talladas con figuras humanas y animales y calados geométricos. |
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aloalo............ |
[CDBP-SNPC Preferred, NMAfA Preferred, RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred, VP Preferred, VP-intern Preferred] |
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AAT-Ned (1994-) |
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Contributed as a candidate term Candidate term -- AFRART -- 2/96; resubmitted with revisions 7/98 |
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Decary, La mort et les coutumes funéraries à Madagascar (1962) illustration, 170 |
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Gillon, Breve historia del arte africano (1984) 251 |
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Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) illustration, Vol. 20, 37 |
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Portuguese Translation Intern Project (2020-) |
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Schaedler, Lexikon Afrikanischer Kunst und Kultur (1994) 260 |
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