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[Tim Simmons]

Thanks Lew, what with the two shades of horn and finding some good modern day photos showing how materialy poor these hardy nomad people are I am in full agreement with you.The sellers photo was very bad, I took a gamble.Tim

[Conogre]

I too think you did fairly well....I've got one that's also WWII vintage or later and while we westerners tend to look down on aluminum it's often hard to remember that even today many of the Afar and similar nomadic peoples aren't far removed from where they were 100 years ago with the exception that, in their eyes, the Gods took pity on them and left vast piles of metal (tanks, jeeps and aircraft) laying around that their ancestors would have happily fought to the death for.
Likewise, many of their ancestors DID die while those piles of metal were accumulating and they are using them just as their ancestors did.
Mike