Makemba

Makemba was a fetish revered by the people of Madagascar. He took special care of the king and his dignitaries. It was in the form of a three-strand braid tied with a ribbon on which shells, bones, feathers, and other similar objects hung. Their cult consisted of sprinkling on the fetish and on the king by the sorcerers, and the impregnation of a red liquid, which was also used for amulets and which recalls the use of red ocher, symbol of life, by prehistoric men..