Mada | Souvenir

Back to the colonial period of Madagascar, I found this old drawing of a postman.
It seems strange as it is like an old comics that many of us have already forgotten.
The postman is bore by three, maybe four indigene on a sort of stretcher which is known as "filanjana".
During royal period of Madagascar, "filanjana" was used by the kings and queens. Only by them(?)...
This drawing clearly shows how colonists appropriate old customs and traditions of their conquered countries as if they were their own.
In fact, distributing letters is rather an exhausting activity when you have no cars, no cycles, no motorcycle... but this job and this sort of honor is very far away from leading a country! By the way, the postman was powered by human energy ;-)
Maybe I'm wrong... If so, it doesn't matter!