PHOTO OF THE DAY January 28, 2006  

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Where Kandahar, Afghanistan
When 1946
Photographer Maynard Owen Williams

"The skilled toes of a Kandahar workman hold a broken cup in a living vise for busy hands to mend. With his bow drill, the workman bores small cavities for brads of soft copper to be hammered in, binding the pieces."

—From "Geographica/Classic: Back to Afghanistan," December 2004, National Geographic magazine


Photo gallery: Faces of Afghanistan
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