Tartarin:
Whose your friend on your avatar? Is is a pet? He is cute!
VNN (notice I stole the Maureen Dowd quote from your link!): The guy on the left (well, she's really a girl), was my way of getting down the mountain to where the water and food were. Those grass baskets hanging on her carry "cantaros," exactly the same as Greek amphorae, for hauling fresh drinking water from the fuente. On the right is a turkey. I don't remember the turkey but you can guess what it was for.