The work of the horn and mother-of-pearl applied to jewels, place settings, dice cups, pawns of games, plumiers, glasses cases … The immense horns of the zebu - symbolic animal of Madagascar offer a very fine material of a big variety of colors going from the black to the amber clearly. Its stake in work by tabletiers reminds that of another material, stemming from a species protected by the agreement of Washington, the scale of tortoise, still used but she has to replace it totally. Mother-of-pearl is in abundance on coasts in diverse sorts of shells sometimes of big dimensions.
The list of the Malagasy arts and crafts cannot be closed without quoting the jeweller's shop (notably the work of the watermarked gold in the North and the West, the cast iron of aluminium which after molding and brushing lends itself to the manners of the bronze in decoration (city of Ambatolampy), the thick paper Antaimoro which includes in the natural pulp flowers and stalks arranged artistically, mohair carpets of the big South and finally the models of boats (Antananarivo)).