Above, Hilary Brown considers this primitive footstool, presented to her by a woodcutter in 1973, her greatest prize

Original Toronto Star caption: Above, Hilary Brown considers this primitive footstool, presented to her by a woodcutter in 1973, her greatest prize. It's from a remote valley in Pakistan accessible only on foot and inhabited by pagan people with blond hair and green eyes, said to be descended from a deserting legion of the army of Alexander the Great.