Other threatened creatures that find their way, legally and illegally, into Chinese cooking pots could also be spared.
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Medieval Chinese emperors were buried with their horses, soldiers, cooking pots and food to speed them on their way.
So are the endless piles of cooking pots, suitcases, car parts, stationery, toys, mobile phones, plastic plants and erotic figurines.
They have a few cooking pots still, and a change of clothes.
The Radiated and Ploughshare tortoises were on the last leg of their journey to pet shops and possibly cooking pots, Malaysian officials believe.
Instead there is a kitchen with cooking pots, wine vessels and glasses, and a case filled with earthenware dancers, the sleeves of their robes swirling in the breeze.
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It may be that the Polynesians, having just crossed two thousand miles of the Pacific in a fleet of outrigger canoes, were too exhausted to think about making cooking pots.
Zebra skins adorn chairs with gilded edges, a Shanghai Tang trunk doubles as a bar, local cooking pots become showerheads in outside showers, and a rectangular crystal light fixture designed in-house was, Lazarus insists, such a hit that Fendi copied it.
The radical minimalism of these machines, built mostly in Europe in the 1950s and early '60s, reflected the region's postwar scarcity. (One resourceful builder beat old cooking pots into fender panels.) They typically measure 10 feet long or less, with less than 700-cc engine displacement and one or two seats arranged side by side or in tandem, scooter style.
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Tourists gently haggling with good natured shopkeepers over the price of pashminas rub shoulders with Qatari and Indian families buying everything from traditional garments to giant pots used for cooking traditional lamb dishes.
"My research showed that the average person spends about 28 hours a year waiting around for pots to boil during cooking, " Aram said.
The self-described cooking enthusiast came up with the idea for the device, called the "Sensiboil, " after being fed up waiting around for pots to boil during his own cooking.
The cooking is done on open fires, which have big pots of water boiling on them all day.
Pots are used for storing beer, fermenting sorghum meal, fetching water, cooking, ancestral worship and traditional healing rituals.
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