 | Kreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705 |
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| 1922, Sumatra, the price of one horn varies from 30 to 50 guilders, the white kind is much more valuable |
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| Kreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705 |
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| Sumatra. Medicine called L? Soemboe Badeue, which is water in which a rhinoceros horn was soaked. It is drunk as a medicine against witchcraft. |
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| Buennemeyer, H.A.B. 1921 Reizen in het bergland van Midden-Sumatra, II Over de dwarsketen van den Barisan, uitgaande van de Koerintji-Vallei. Tropische Natuur 10 (3): 33-37, figs. 5-7 |
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| When I stayed at the peak of Koerintji, there would have been there a white rhinoceros, whose horn is much valued by the locals as a 'obat' or rather 'djimat', but fortunately I never met him. |
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| Kops, G.F. de Bruijn 1919 Overzicht van Zuid-Sumatra. Amsterdam, Zuid-Sumatra Instituut, pp. i-viii, 1-166 |
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| 1919, Sumatra, for a large horn f 200 (guilders) can be fetched |
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| Kops, G.F. de Bruijn 1919 Overzicht van Zuid-Sumatra. Amsterdam, Zuid-Sumatra Instituut, pp. i-viii, 1-166 |
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| Sumatra. The rhinoceros horn is an ingredient of medicine much sought after by eastern people, for instance for poisonous bites of snakes and scorpions) and in thin slices as an amulet. |
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| Wroughton, R.C. 1918 Bombay Natural History Society's mammal survey of India, Burma and Ceylon: Report no. 29: Pegu. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 25 (3): 472-481 |
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| 1918, Burma, which are worth from Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1,500 to a native shikari. Every part of the animal is saleable. A good horn alone is worth from Rs. 800 to Rs. 1,000, and almost any horn is worth from Rs. 400 to Rs. 500 |
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| Shelford, R.W.C. 1916 A naturalist in Borneo. Edited with a biographical introduction by Edward B. Poulton. London, T.Fisher Unwin, pp. i-xxxviii, 1-331 |
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| The horn is much prized by the Chinese for medicinal purposes, but the other parts of the animal, having no commercial value, are not brouyght down by the inland natives to the bazaars of the river towns and Government stations. |
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| Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 |
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| The horn, 'tjoela badak', is valuable as an amulet and as a medicine. Javanese and Malay people use the scrapings against snakebites and rabid dogs, against vegetable poisons, scorpion-stings, skin diseases [schurftachtige huiduitslagen] and other ailments. |
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| Kloppenburg-Versteegh, J. 1915 Wenken en raadgevingen betreffende het gebruik van Indische planten, vruchten enz 3rd edition. Semarang, Soerabaia, Den Haag, G.C.T. van Dorp and Co, pp. 1, 1-328, i-viii |
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| Even in olden days, rhinoceros horn scrapings were mixed with water and used against poisonings, especially when the poison which had been taken was directed towards the nervous system. Rhinoceros horn has a very calming effect. |
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| Kreemer, J. 1915 Volksheilkunde im Malaiischen Archipel. Janus 20: 365-408 |
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| Rhinoceros horn (Javanese tjula, Malay tjula). The Javan rub it on a soft stone with some water, which produces a milky juice, which they use as a medicine against snakebite and rabies, as well as poisonous plants (van Hien). Mixed with water and drunk it would strengthen the body and remove al... |
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