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Madagascar The Sakalava are the largest and most diverse people on the western coast of Madagascar, the result of a number of royal dynasties and kingdoms. Like the other Madagascar peoples, the Sakalava honor their ancestors with figures on wooden posts. Sakalava wood sculptures, usually in the form of birds or nude female and male figures (sometimes erotically embracing), are placed on the tombs of high-ranking individuals. Typically the female figure is larger, more elaboratly carved and more prominent than the male. This is because they are not representations of individuals but signs of fertitlity, erotic force and especially the life cycle.