Informant38

2,000 Baboon Noses
(found) in a suitcase by inspectors at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
Baggage handlers had noticed a 'putrid smell' from an unaccompanied suitcase believed to have come from Lagos, Nigeria, and apparently destined for the US. Inspectors said the 30kg suitcase was filled with rotting baboon noses.
Bush meat and parts of endangered species, especially ivory tusks and rhino horns, are routinely found at the airport in luggage but this haul was described as 'staggering' by inspectors.
The noses, which have now been destroyed, were believed to be for human consumption or, more probably, to be used as a traditional medicine or fertility booster. Police are still trying to find the owner of the case.

{All these neat lines between the craven colonizers and the noble indigenes. Come tumbling down.
Dian Fossey was accused of racism, in part because of an attitude brought on by the conflict between her fierce love of gorillas, and her outraged disgust as this type of superstitious nonsense, coupled with raw greed, threatened to drive them to extinction.
But this isn't racial, it's cultural. And cultural distinctions are as vitally necessary as moral ones, because they are moral distinctions. There are traditions of evil that will never be sacred, no matter how old they become.}