Posted by Adam Quinan on June 26, 2005 at 13:45:03 from 65.48.152.132 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Reindeer horns posted by Dan Lind on June 25, 2005 at 20:05:03:
Dan wrote: I don't think the United States Coast Guard would be up to it: they would think I'm a terrorist from Finland.
But if you were sneaky and told them they were Canadian caribou antlers instead of Finnish reindeer horns, they might let it pass.
Reindeer and caribou are the same species of animal, the Sami people of Finland (formerly Lapps) have developed a nomadic lifestyle which exploits the reindeer more effectively than the native North American people did the caribou.