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People who have never seen glass - 12/5/2007 2:42:07 PM    reptilekeeper   Posts: 60 Joined: 3/30/2005 Status: offline I hope this photo came through this is my first attempt at a photo post. If it did this is a photo of the land of NO bottles, these folks had never seen man made glass, they ironicaly likened it to obsidian! This photo was taken on an expidition to Papua new guinea, this village was in the highlands. On the coast there were alot of WW 2 relics, many Coke bottles, and Glass float balls all over some beaches. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/5/2007 3:45:00 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5442 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline I think they were pulling your leg. I saw one of those guys in the back row haggling over a pontilled sarsaparilla at a bottle show last year. Sort of reminds me of that first "The Gods must be Crazy" movie where the bottle falls out of the airplane and hits the Bushman in the head. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to reptilekeeper) Post #: 2

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/5/2007 4:08:25 PM    reptilekeeper   Posts: 60 Joined: 3/30/2005 Status: offline Thats what all that native banter was about!!! I knew it, they were stashing the good stuff. (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 3

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/5/2007 7:52:40 PM    CrewelaDeVil   Posts: 309 Joined: 8/31/2005 From: New England Status: offline I have photos from there during the war. My grandfather sent them to my grandmother when he was stationed there. Glad to see things haven't changed. (in reply to reptilekeeper) Post #: 4

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/6/2007 11:39:09 AM    GuntherHess Posts: 5442 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Here is a privey way up in the interior of Fiji. They called it the "chief's throne". You wont find any bottles digging the early Fijian privies but you may find some well gnawed human bones  Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to CrewelaDeVil) Post #: 5

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/6/2007 1:24:09 PM    reptilekeeper   Posts: 60 Joined: 3/30/2005 Status: offline In New Guinea the call them Lik Lik House... or in english "little house" No bottles either.. you could have gotten a Ph. D studying the organizims living down there! you would have to wait 150 years before you would want to dig it...probably some bones as well. (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 6

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/16/2007 9:38:02 PM    Whisperingwinds   Posts: 211 Joined: 10/24/2006 Status: offline Excellent picture....makes me think how lucky we are. ww (in reply to reptilekeeper) Post #: 7

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/17/2007 1:14:11 AM    capsoda Posts: 8080 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Louis, Is that you in the picture? Some of the aborial tribes there still practise cannibalism. At least is the late 1970s they did. Looks like that one little fella is sizing up a leg of man. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to Whisperingwinds) Post #: 8

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/17/2007 10:19:14 AM    reptilekeeper   Posts: 60 Joined: 3/30/2005 Status: offline Warren, yes that is me in the picture, I was part of an expidition in 2002 -2004 doing Bio-diversity surveys my job was to catolog the reptiles and bugs. It was unbelivable... we were the first white skined people they had ever seen, and yes they still eat people in the highlands, they only eat the ones thought to be witches or evil. And if you notice how skinny I am it would not have been worth the effort they could get more meat off a lizard, and I tried not to cast evil spells on the village. I could tell you stories.... (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 9

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/17/2007 12:31:27 PM    capsoda Posts: 8080 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline I was at Port Moresby and then flew yp to a mining camp on an off day. I was at a smal reserve air base in nothern Austraila. The run was and camp had a white tape line around the whole place. I was told that to crass it was certian death. Inside was ours and outside was theirs. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to reptilekeeper) Post #: 10

RE: People who have never seen glass - 12/17/2007 1:29:26 PM    reptilekeeper   Posts: 60 Joined: 3/30/2005 Status: offline They are very sharp and keen people, very good with the bow and arrow; smart to stay behind the line!! It has gotten a bit better than it was, the Austrailians tried to clean it up. It still is very dangerous, the biggest threat are the rascals, the groups of armed thugs looking to rape, rob, and steal mainly around Port Morsbey and Lae, you do not go out alone at anytime, you do not go out at night, wear no jewlery etc..when we were in the rain forest and in the villages the people for the most part were very friendly, leary, but friendly. Traded tee shirts for some real cool artifacts look at the photo, the guy all the way to the far right GAVE me that neak piece, it is made of dog, pig, and human teeth. I got stone axes with the heads made out of jade, all kinds of weapons, shields, carvings, other body adornments basicaly I took home a small museum of PNG stuff. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 11

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