Sometimes the cattle are represented as necks or horns, a pictorial shorthand that was evidently sufficient to convey meaning. - Sada Mire

A Somali woman in trousers, boots and with men is a strange sight for them. And a woman leading a team of men is something absolutely unacceptable. Some are happy to see it, but they wouldn't want their daughters to do it.

Yes, but we didn't have a chance to study them erly. We just recorded them and secured them. I don't excavate because there's not even a museum in Somaliland where these objects could be stored and properly studied.

The child that tiire doesn't give you, God won't give you either.’ The role of Rotheca myricoides in Somali fertility practices