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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra |
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Value - Related to Horn |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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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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Land en volk van Sumatra
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