People who have never seen glass

[reptilekeeper]

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.

 

[GuntherHess]

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.[]

 

[reptilekeeper]

Thats what all that native banter was about!!! I knew it, they were stashing the good stuff.

 

[CrewelaDeVil]

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.[8D]

 

[GuntherHess]

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[]

 

[reptilekeeper]

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.

 

[Whisperingwinds]

Excellent picture....makes me think how lucky we are.
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[capsoda]

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. [sm=lol.gif]

 

[reptilekeeper]

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....

 

[capsoda]

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.