Reference Base Notes for: Value - Related to Horn back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  Jenyns, S. 1953 Oriental antiquities from the Sloane collection in the British Museum. British Museum Quarterly 18: 18-20 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Sloane Collection in British Museum, London. The departemt has 4 carved rhinoceros horn cups. Two of these are reproduced by W. Born in 1939. The gilded cup is probably No. 1142 and was acquired by Dr Kaempfer in Japan.   details Smythies, O. 1953 Tiger lady: adventures in the Indian jungle. Melbourne, London and Toronto, William Heinemann, pp. i-xi, 1-229 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value - Related to Horn Indian Rhino 1953, Nepal, horn costs 100-150   details MacKenzie, P.Z. 1953 Rhino traps and rhino horns. Sudan Wildlife and Sport 3 (1): 5-6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1953, Sudan, Horn is valuable, worth a bull, say E?8   details Reinach, L. de 1950 Le Laos. Paris, E.Guilmoto, pp. i-vii, 1-392 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Laos Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1920, Laos, 111 to 137 francs per kilo   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn is valued by the Chinese for medical and aphrodisiac purposes.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1949, Borneo, carcass value totalled $300 or more   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1948, India, market value about IRS 25 per ounce, and a good horn weighs over 60 ounces   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Horn is valued as an antidote for various poisons, including opium.   details Ho Van Cam 1947 Big game in Viet-Nam. Nguoi San Ban Dong Duong 1947 October 1: 33-34 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Vietnam Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Rhino horns are used in Sino-Vietnamese medicine.   details Andersson, C.J. 1946 Africana Museum: some recent acquisitions. Africana Notes and News 3 (2): 65-66 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Africana Museum, Johannesburg. Horn cup, mounted with a silver rim on the base, inscribed ?Made from the horn of a rhinoceros killed by C.J. Andersson on July 15th, 1853.'   details Schneeberger, W.F. 1945 The Kerayan-Kelabit highland of Central Northeast Borneo. Geographical Review 35: 544-562, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Kerayan-Kalabit Highland, Borneo Horns, hide and intestines find a ready market in Chinese shops, where medicine is made from them, although the animal is officially protected.   details Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Chinese pay fabulous prices for the horns, bones, blood and other portions of the animal. Rhino horn is credited by the Chinese with curing all diseases; but they particularly prescribe it as an aphrodisiac.   details Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1930, Sumatra, 250 rupees (guilders) for a catty, 1.36 lbs. of powdered horn.   details Casal, U.A. 1940 Carved rhinoceros horns of China. Cultureel Indie 2: 212-216, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species [Reference only]   details Born, W. 1939 More eastern objects formerly in the Hapsburg Collection. Burlington Magazine 75: 64-70, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Cups formerly in Hapsburg collections in Vienna 1. Lacquered rhinoceros horn cup, translucent, ornamental with Bidri-work. We may attribute the Viennese horn cup to Kashmir, where both Bidri work and lacquering were to be found. Second half of 17th century. 2. Two rhinoceros horn cups, natura...   details Sowerby, A.de C. 1939 Some Chinese animal myths and legends. Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 70: 1-20, pls. 1-12, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The horn is believed to have magical medicinal properties, being an antidote to poisons, for which reason it became popular as a material from which to carve drinking cups. It is also believed to cure demon possessions. Taken in powedered form, it gives strength and courage.   details Carpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species A forest officer in Medan reported that he had seen a rhinoceros which had been trapped in central Atjeh and which had the horns and other preferred parts cut away. The carcass was covered with a crude shelter awaiting the return of the trappers to carry away the remainder. This is an example o...   details Casal, U.A. 1938 The carved rhinoceros horns of China. Antiques 33: 28-31, figs. 1-13 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Chad Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species [Reference only]   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1880, Borneo, Fifty years ago anyone, who shot a rhino was rather disappointed: he couldn't eat it all, it was too far to carry home, and the most that could be obtained from it was an occasional sword hilt made from the horn; these can still be obtained at a fabulous price.   details Boulenger, E.G. 1937 The London Zoo. London, J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd., pp. i-ix, 1-212 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The horn was in olden times much valued for the manufacture of drinking cups, such vessels being alleged to detect poison poured into them. Today the horn is in great demand amonst Chinese as a tonic, and commands fourteen pounds per pound weight.   details Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species They have been destroyed by the Meos, a mountain people who have imigrated from China in recent times. The Meos hunters search for them for the horn, used as a medicine. The value of the horns was so great that they figured in the tribute sent by the king of Luang-Prabang every year to the Empe...   details Uganda Game Department 1937 Extracts from the Annual report, 1935. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 32: 60-84 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1935, Uganda, Rhino horn realized from 12s to 15s per lb   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Fifty years ago anyone, who shot a rhino was rather disappointed: he couldn't eat it all, it was too far to carry home, and the most that could be obtained from it was an occasional sword hilt made from the horn; these can still be obtained at a fabulous price. Nowadays, a rhino may fetch anythi...   details Tanganyika Game Preservation Department 1937 Annual Report, 1935. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 74-81 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1937, Tanzania, Horn is bought by receivers from native poachers at a price varying from 1s 50c to 2s per lb. As its market valkue at present is 12s per lb. even if it is disposed for only half the market value a very handsome profit is made   details Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in Malaya. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 45-52 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1937, Malaya, Chinese will pay as much as 300-400 dollars for the horn   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1937, Borneo, Nowadays, a rhino may fetch anything up to $300-$400, its horn being the most useful part, but the blood and the flesh also fetch a price, solely on account of the supposed aphrodisiacal properties appreciated by the Chinese.   details Boulenger, E.G. 1937 The London Zoo. London, J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd., pp. i-ix, 1-212 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 1937, horn 14 pounds per pounds weight   details Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1937, Indochina, The horn and feet of a rhinoceros are worth about $2000, which probably explains why so few specimens find their way to museums.   details Kenya Game Department 1936 Annual report for 1932, 1933, and 1934. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 27: 36-43 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1936, Kenya, Rhino horn price was low at Shs. 12/55 per lb. In 1929 we had seen Sh. 42 per lb and more.   details Uganda Game Department 1936 Annual Report for 1934. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 28: 53-59 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1934, Uganda, Sold at auction in Mombasa, May 1934: 57 3/4 lbs rhino horn, total ?33-12-07, i.e. Shs 11/59 per lb. In November 1934 sold 57 lbs, realized ?28-13-51, average Shs. 10/40 per lb.   details Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1936, Malaya, A rhino is worth Rs. 1000 or more to the poacher, its chief value is in its horn, but every part of it possesses a definite value, including the blood, as an aphrodisiac.   details Franck, P.F. 1934 Rhinoceros sondaicus in West-Java. Tropische Natuur 23: 76-79 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Java. Old males of the Javan rhinoceros are poached because the value of their horn and hide is still very high.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Rhinoceros horns are occasionally faked: I have seen a very clever imitation made of buffalo horn which defeated detection until it had been broken up.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The blood and horn of the Sumatran rhinoceros have a very high medicinal value in the imagination of Chinamen, Burmans and tribesmen indigenous to Burma. One gathers that such parts of a rhinoceros have the properties of a very potent aphrodisiac. An average horn, about 8 inches in length, is w...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1933, Burma, An average horn, about 8 inches in length, is worth about 1000 rupees, and the blood, when dried, is valued at its own weight in silver.   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Sumatra. And what about our friend Rhino ? Well, he went the way of all Rhinos, i.e. to the chemist's of the Celestial Empire, with hide and hair, to give - with more or less results -Youth and Vitality, to old sinners and patriarchs, who still refused to renounce the Pleasures of Life. The Chi...   details Uganda Game Department 1932 Uganda Protectorate, Game Department, Report 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 17: 21-27 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1931, Uganda, Revenue of ivory, rhino horns, total ?15,266. [horn not specified]   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1932, Sumatra, Horn 4000 guilders   details Gimlette, J.D.; Burkill, I.H. 1930 The medical book of Malayan medicine, translated by Inche' Ismail, possibly in Penang, circa 1886. Gardens Bulletin 6 (11-15): 323-474 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Rhinoceros tooth (saking badak) for use in a fumigation and for ulceration of the vagina. Take rhino tooth and burn it near her side.   details Dammerman, K.W. 1929 Preservation of wild life and nature reserves in the Netherlands Indies. Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Science Congress, Java 1929: 1-91, pls. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1929, Java, one horn some hundred guilders   details Dammerman, K.W. 1929 Preservation of wild life and nature reserves in the Netherlands Indies. Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Science Congress, Java 1929: 1-91, pls. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1929, Java, between 200 and 400 guilders per kg   details Dammerman, K.W. 1929 Preservation of wild life and nature reserves in the Netherlands Indies. Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Science Congress, Java 1929: 1-91, pls. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Horns are highly valued by the Chinese and are used for a secret medicine.   details Gimlette, J.D. 1929 Malay poisons and charm cures. London, J. and A. Churchill, pp. i-xiv, 1-301 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Rhinoceros horn is used against poisoning with 'rengut', in a mixture together with bones of a whale, solid casque of a rare hornbill, a sea-porcupine and stag's water, mixed in water.   details Uganda Game Department 1928 Uganda protectorate Extracts from the Annual report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1926. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 8: 83-87 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1926, Uganda, Rhino horn sold at Shs. 17/60 per lb. The value soared at the end of the year, Mombasa prices having reached Shs 36/- per lb.   details Ritchie, A.T.A. 1928 Kenya Colony Extracts from Game Department Annual Report 1926. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 8: 67-74 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1928, Central African Rep., 800 francs per kilogram horn.   details Ritchie, A.T.A. 1928 Kenya Colony Extracts from Game Department Annual Report 1926. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 8: 67-74 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1928, Kenya, Risen from Shs 12 a couple of years ago to Shs 36 now   details Coomans de Ruiter, L. 1928 Wildreservaten in Zuid-Sumatra en in de Minahasa. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 4: 32-39 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1928, Sumatra, one horn f 1200-1600   details Haywood, C.W. 1927 To the mysterious Lorian swamp: an adventure & arduous journey of exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-275 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species At one time the Meru used to trap rhino in gamepits and sell the horns to Swahili traders, apparently for making some sort of medicine;   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species There is demand for their flesh, and on the part of the Chinese, particularly for their horns, which Mr Douglas burden tells me are also in demand in French Indo-China.   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species There is demand for their flesh, and on the part of the Chinese, particularly for their horns, which Mr Douglas burden tells me are also in demand in French Indo-China.   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1922, Sumatra, the price of one horn varies from 30 to 50 guilders, the white kind is much more valuable   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Sumatra. Medicine called L? Soemboe Badeue, which is water in which a rhinoceros horn was soaked. It is drunk as a medicine against witchcraft.   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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.   details Kops, G.F. de Bruijn 1919 Overzicht van Zuid-Sumatra. Amsterdam, Zuid-Sumatra Instituut, pp. i-viii, 1-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1919, Sumatra, for a large horn f 200 (guilders) can be fetched   details Kops, G.F. de Bruijn 1919 Overzicht van Zuid-Sumatra. Amsterdam, Zuid-Sumatra Instituut, pp. i-viii, 1-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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.   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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.   details Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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.   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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.   details Kreemer, J. 1915 Volksheilkunde im Malaiischen Archipel. Janus 20: 365-408 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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...   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1914, Java, The Chinese and Arabs will pay 10 to 20 guilders for these and for a large horn they will give 50 guilders or more.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species In Deli too there is the superstition that poisonous drinks poured into a horn will be discovered by foaming. The horns are therefore very expensive.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The natives believe that the horn of the rhinoceros will detect poison when it is put in a liquid. It is called Tandokh-badak. The Malay and Sundanese call it Tjoela-badakh. Amulets made of the horn will ward off any kind of accident. The Chinese and Arabs will pay 10 to 20 guilders for these...   details Carbou, H. 1912 La region du Tchad et du Ouadai: etudes ethnographiques. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Chad Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Chad. Rhinoceros horn is used to make buttons for coats and ornaments.   details Woodhouse, C.W. 1912 The game of the North Kavirondo District, Nyanza province. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 3 (5): 28-36 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Rhino horn rungus are not uncommon amonst the Masai and Nyarusi, but are stated to have been brought from a distance.   details Giran, P. 1912 Magie & religion annamites: introduction ? une philosophie de la civilisation du peuple d'Annam. Paris, Augustin Challamel, pp. 1, i-v, 1-449 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species We notice that the magical powers can as well reside in a part of the animal as it can in the animal in its entirety. The horn of the rhinoceros ... is as powerful as the animal to which the object belongs. Those who can obtain a rhinoceros horn and mould it in the form of a fish, if this obj...   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species In the south-west of Kordofan the natives have a tradition that anyone who drinks out of a cup made from a rhinoceros horn never gets sick.   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Rhinoceros horn is used for making handles for walking sticks and umbrellas, it is easily cut with a knife and if a fragment be soaked in weak caustic alkali solution it will soften and flake in the same way that our finger nails and patches of hard skin soften under the influences of soap and wa...   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species The long front horn of the rhinoceros is sometimes fashioned into sticks to beat cattle and goats, and occasionally it is made into clubs for Masai orators and councillors.   details Hooper, D. 1910 Materia medica animalium Indica. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal N.S. 6 (10): 507-522 Location: Subject: Species: Europe Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The horn had virtues ascribed to it in Europe up to the 19th century.   details Andel, M.A. van 1909 Volksgeneeskunst in Indie. Utrecht, J.van Boekhoven, pp. i-xi, 1-459 Location: Subject: Species: Europe Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Cure for Rachitis - the horn of he unicorn, derived from the rhinoceros, more often from the narwhal. It was worn as an amulet (charm) or used as poweder internally, guarding against all poisons and dangerous substances.   details Skeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Malaysia, Semang tribe. The horn is supposed to be possessed with medicinal properties, and is highly prized by the Malays, to whom the Semang genrally barter it for tobacco and similar commodities.   details Maxwell, W.G. 1906 Mantra Gajah. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 1-53 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Medicine to make an elephant fat (mantra gajah). This is another remedy: we take the skin of a rhinoceros' navel and soak it in water with some Siamese salt and some honey. Then we give the elephant the skin to eat with its food: we pour the liquid over the elephant and give it some to drink. ...   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Sumatra - anti-poison. The shavings of rhino horn, as well as the cups made from the whole horn, are said to possess the mysterious property that it foams up as soon as a poisonous substance touches it. As many Malay and other local royalty live in constant fear of being poisoned, and not just ...   details Clement, E.W. 1906 Japanese medical folk-lore. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 35: 15-32, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Japan Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 'Usaikaku', or Rhinoceros horns. The horns of the rhino are powdered and used as a specific in fever cases of all kinds.   details Chakravarti, M. 1906 Animals in the inscriptions of Piyadasi. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1 (17): 361-374 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The rhinoceros was placed in the class Anupa (Car.Sutra xxvii. 37; subclass kulacarah, Sus. Ch. xlvi.). Its flesh is said to be a destroyer of cough, astringent, remover of winds, good for liver, pure, life prolonger, restrainer of urine and keeper (of health?) (Susi, ch. xlvi). Its flesh is pr...   details Wray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species [Animal shot and skinned] Some Chinese woodcutters begged for the flesh. They also took other parts of the body for medicinal purposes.   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Burmans and Chinamen place a very high value on the horn and blood of rhinoceroses as medicinal articles. Wherein their virtues as drugs lie I do not know, but they are supposed to be most potent, especially in all diseases not yielding to ordinary drugs. I expect their fictitious powers are de...   details Watt, G. 1904 Indian art at Delhi 1903: being the official catalogue of the Delhi exhibition 1902-1903. London, John Murray Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species A cup made of rhinoceros-horn is much prized by Hindus, but that material is too scarce to be of much value.   details Pelliot, P. 1902 Memoires sur les coutumes du Cambodge. Bulletin de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient 2 (2): 123-177 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Translates book by Tcheou Ta-Kouan, of the Yuan dynasty, called Ts'ao-t'ing. Cambodia - among the more precious productions, there are ivory and rhinoceros horn. The white horn is veined and much esteemed; the inferior quality is black. Pellito 1902; the horn is also part of some medicines. T...   details Regnault, J. 1902 Medicine et pharmacie chez les Chinois et chez les Annamites. Paris, A.Challamel, pp. i-x, 1-233 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Pharmalogical index for China. 345. Si kio - small horn of the double-horned rhinoceros 346. Si p'i - hide of the rhino.   details Skeat, W.W. 1900 Malay magic, being an introduction on the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xiv, 1-685 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Malaysia. The tiger, elephant and rhinoceros were not mere brutes to be attacked and destroyed. The immense advantages which their strength and bulk gave them over the feebly-armed savage of the most primitive tribes naturally suggested the possession of supernatural powers; and propitiation, n...   details Hien, H.A. van 1896 De Javaansche geestenwereld en de betrekking, die tusschen de geesten en de zinnelijke wereld bestaat, verduidelijkt door Petangan's of tellingen, bij de Javanen in gebruik, vol 2: De Tengeran's. Semarang, G.C.T. van Dorp and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-175 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Tjoela-warak. The horn of the rhinoceros is worshipped by the Javans. Pieces of the horn are carried when travelling to ward against accidents. The worship of the horn is probably based on its great medicinal value. When the horn is rubbed on a soft stone with some water, one gets a milky sub...   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1895 Seventeen trips through Somaliland. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xx, 1-386 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Ethiopia. Only important Abyssinians are allowed to be in possession of rhino horns. They make sword handles and drinking cups of them.   details Schefer, C. 1895 Notice sur les relations des peuples Musulmans avec les Chinois, l'extension de l'islamisme jusqu'a la fin du XVe siecle. Centenaire de l'ecole des langues orientales vivantes 1895: 1-43 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Translation from a chapter on China found n 11th century treatise by Hafiz el Gharb, with title El gacd ouel amem fit ta'arif bioucel enssats il arab ... The most esteemed ornament are made from the horn of the rhinoceros, which presents to the eye a variety of figures and shapes until it is cut...   details Bartlett, E. 1891 Notes on the Bornean rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891 December 1: 654-655, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The above-mentioned skulls and horns came from the jungle regions of the upper Rajah River, inhabited by the Kyans, a dangerous race of people, very distinct fron the Dyaks. These Kyans procure the horns for barter, for which they receive a high price from the Chinese, who import them to China f...   details Meyer, J.J. 1891 Tjarita Ki-Asdoera: het verhaal van Ki-Asdoera: tekst, vertaling en aanteekeningen, met eene inleiding en opmerking over de spreektaal in Zuid-Banten. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (5) 6: 347-384 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn (tjoela) of the rhinoceros has a high value. It may be assumed to be known that it takes an important place in the local and Chinese medicine. It cures ailments of the chest, snake bites, internal and external wounds, and poisoning.   details Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1890, Java, One horn sells for 40 to 150 florins   details Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The carcass of a rhino is prized by the natives, especially by the Java Chinese, who even use the skin in preparations of food. The hide resembles that of a hippopotamus. The horn is highly valued by natives, who belive it will extract the poison of applied to the bite of a serpent or scorpion....   details Johnston, H.H. 1886 The Kilima-Njaro expedition: a record of scientific exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa, and a general fescription of the natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilima-Njaro district. London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, pp. i-xv, 1-572 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1886, Tanzania, horns may be bought in the interior for a few pence worth of cloth, and sold on the coast for 3-4 rupees each   details Hornaday, W.T. 1885 Two years in the jungle: the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. London, Kegan Paul and Trench, pp. i-xxii, 1-512 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Singapore Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1885, Singapore, on the market, I was offered a rhinoceros at $250   details Hymans van Anrooy, H.A. 1885 Nota omtrent het rijk van Siak. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal Land en Volkenkunde 30: 259-390 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1885, Sumatra, per horn $20 - $60, white horn $60 a piece   details Felkin, R.W. 1885 Notes on the For tribe of Central Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 8: 205-265 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Superstitions of For tribe, living in Darfur, Sudan. Cups made of rhinoceros horn are supposed to detect poison in water, beer, or wine, the fluid changing colour; to give one of these cups to a friend is the highest honour that can be paid to him. (I think this ideas must have been derived from...   details Hymans van Anrooy, H.A. 1885 Nota omtrent het rijk van Siak. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal Land en Volkenkunde 30: 259-390 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Kingdom of Siak. Every rhinoceros found must be offered to the Sultan. The finder receives a persalinan for this. The horn is much sought after as a medicine and it is said to act well against snake bites. A rhinoceros horn is worth between $ 20 and $ 60. Sometimes a white horn is found, for...   details Burg, C.L. van der 1885 De geneesheer in Nederlandsch-Indie, III. Matera Indica. Batavia, Ernst and Co, pp. i-xx, 1-856 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species In such a rhino horn people pour water, which must remain in it for a minimum of 12 hours, preferably by night. That water is a cure for exhausting diseases, especially consumption of the lungs. Disks cut from the horn, or small cuttings, have special power against snake bite. Maybe this can b...   details Bakker, H.P.A. 1884 Het rijk Sanggau. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal Land en Volkenkunde 29: 355-400 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Sumatran Rhino The Kingdom of Sanggau extends about 11.5 miles on either side of the Kapoeas River from the border of Tajan and Meliau) Still, far from human villages, the Badak roams here, whose head has such a great value.   details Moura, J. 1883 Le Royaume de Cambodge. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-viii, 1-518 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn is a precious talisman, and one scrapes a bit of it in medicines to give them their curative powers which they otherwise would not have.   details Errington de la Croix, J. 1882 Etude sur les Sakaies du Perak (presqu'ile de Malacca). Revue d'Ethnographie 1: 317-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The Sakai of Malaysia hunt the rhinoceros and exchange the horns for other items for domestic use.   details Oldfield, H.A. 1880 Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive. London, W.H. Allen and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-418 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value - Related to Horn Indian Rhino Out of the horns they manufacture: from the spreading base they make richly carved cups or urgas, which are susceptible of high finish and polish; from the thinner upright part they make kandles for kookeries.   details Fytche, A. 1878 Burma past and present with personal reminiscences of the country. London, C. Kegan Paul and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-355 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species They are most valued by the Chinese and other Eastern nations for certain alleged restorative properties and as remedies for epilepsy, and against the effects of poison.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3