Reference Base Notes for: Value - Related to Horn back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  Martens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The Dayaks make a number of tools from the horn like beakers.   details Morice, A. 1875 Coup d'oeil sur la faune de la Cochinchine francaise. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-101 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1875, Indochina, horn 30-40 piastres, ca. 200 francs   details Morice, A. 1875 Coup d'oeil sur la faune de la Cochinchine francaise. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-101 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species When a rhinoceros is killed, the horn is taken to a chinese pharmacy who will give him a very high price, like 30-40 piastres (ca. 200 francs).   details Bretschneider, E. 1875 Notes on Chinese mediaeval travellers to the west. Chinese Recorder 6 (1): 1-22, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Rhinoceros horn, si kio, is likewise reputed from time immemorail for its anti-poisonous virtues. The Shen Nung Pen Ts'ao, BC 2700, states that rhino horn (chu po tu) 'cures the hundred poisons.' The same belief is found in India. I cannot believe that the Chinese have borrowed this practice f...   details Wallace, A.R. 1874 On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Both horns and teeth are brought to Sibu by natives arriving from the above district for purposes of trade; and these articles being valued by Chinese and Malays for their supposed medicinal properties, at once command a ready sale, so that they disappear generally beyond hope of recovery.   details Soubeiran, J.L.; Thiersant, D. de 1874 La matiere medicale chez les Chinois. Paris, G. Masson, pp. i-x, 1-319 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The horns, si koh, are used to make vases (cups?), and are used as medicine for a variety of diseases. The hide, si p'i, is used to make a gell, bai-si-kau, which is much esteemed. They also male a good gelatine, sy-kio, from the feet of the rhinoceros. They also take scraping from the bones, ...   details Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1873, Sumatra, horn 10 to 20 guilders or more   details Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Rhinoceros horns (tjoela) is an article which is made valuable by the superstition of Arabs and Chinese. They believe that a horn like this, made into an amulet and worn, prevents any accident. Further that a cup made out this horn will show certain signs when the liquid inside is poisoned. Th...   details Grant, J.A. 1872 Summary of observations on the geography, climate, and natural history of the Lake region of Equatorial Africa, made by the Speke and Grant expedition, 1860-1863. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 42: 234-342 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1872, East Africa, Its horn is of no value; we never took the trouble to cut it off the animal as we could not carry it   details Perelaer 1867 Twaalfhonderd palen door Midden Java. Militaire Spectator (3) 12: 547-555 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Visiting the chief of Poerwokerta still had about twenty disks of the horn, the size of a 10 penny (tien stuiver) piece, and offered us some. It is common belief on Java, that rhinoceros horn is the best cure for snake bite. One only needs to dip the horn in vinegar and put it on the wound, and...   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The hide of the animal is made by the Bhotanese into small round shields with brass bosses let in, and are considered by them to be bullet-proof.   details Anonymous 1862 Coupe en corne de rhinoceros. Magasin Pittoresque 30: 44, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species This cup, made by a tibetan artist, was bought on Java. It greatest length is 16 cm by a width of 9 cm, and it is 7 ? cm high. The colour is a reddish brown. We bought the cup for 50 francs from a javanese trader. - illustrated in a drawing made by F?art.   details Gens, E. 1861 Promenade au Jardin Zoologique d'Anvers. Antwerpen, J.E. Buschmann, pp. 1-188 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The indians esteem the horn more than ivory, due to its composition to which they attribute several specific qualities.   details Hasselt, A.L. van 1861 Rhinoceroshoorn als middel tegen slangenbeet. Verslagen en Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen 12: 130-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species A report on the effect of rhino horn on snake-bites, after some cases were published recently in the Bataviaasch Handelsblad. The structure of rhino horn is told. He said that thin sections are cut from the horn and these are put on the wound caused by a poisonous snake, until they drop off on ...   details Ludeking, E.A.W. 1860 Natuur- en geneeskundige topographische schets der Assistent-Residentie Agam. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie N.S. 4: 1-172 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Medicines in the Indies. Against Tjotah oelar (snake bite), there is Soenga badak, rhinoceros horn, attached to the wound.   details Thepass, A.H. 1860 Slangenbeet met doodelijken afloop. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie N.S. 4: 565-580 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species A dog was administered snake poison in a wound on the right hind leg. Some scrapings of rhino horn was put on the wound and then covered by a disk of horn. The animal died quickly. Another dog died within half an hour from the time the horn was given.   details Bleeker, P. 1859 Bestuursvergadering gehouden den 9n Augustus 1858 ten huize van de Heer Groll. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 16 (4e serie deel 2): 305-318 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Snakebites. The curative power of rhinoceros horn for snake bites still needs confirmation in those cases, in which it is certain that the victim was bitten by a poisonous snake. It is desirable that in case of snake bites which are common in these districts, the snake itself is sent to the exp...   details Mandt, C.C.W. 1857 Doodelijke gevolgen van een slangenbeet. Geneeskundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 5: 956-961 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Effectiveness against snake-bite. Even enlightened men have total trust in the medicinal value of rhinoceros horn against snake poison, and in many families, even those of the highest and most educated classes, in the interior, one will find a piece of horn carefully preserved. When one is bitt...   details Williams, S.W. 1856 Chinese commercial guide, consisting of a collection of details and regulations respecting foreign trade with China, sailing directions, tables &c., 4th edition (revised and enlarged). Canton, Office of the Chinese Repository, pp. i-viii, 1-376 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1856, China, best horns $300 per piece, inferior grade from $30 upwards   details Bowring, J. 1855 The kingdom and people of Siam, with a narrative of the mission to that country in 1855. London, John W. Parker and Son, vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-482 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The rhinocero is sought principally for his horns and skin, which latter is supposed to possess great medicinal virtue for strengthening the sick.   details Pallegoix, J.B. 1854 Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam, comprenant la topographie, histoire naturelle, moeurs et coutumes, legislation, commerce, industrie, langue, litterature, religion, annales des Thai et precis historique de la mission. Paris, Mission de Siam, vol. 1, pp. 1-488 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Many virtues are attributed to the horn, and even the hide, however thick and tough it is, is regarded as a delicacy and fortifies weak people.   details Murs, O. des; Prevost, F.; Guichenot; Guerin-Menneville 1850 Histoire naturelle, Zoologie: vol. 6, pp. i, 1-396 In: Lefebvre, T. et al. Voyage en Abyssinie execute pendant les annees 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 par une commission scientifique. Paris, Arthus Bertrand Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species The rhinoceros horns arerather large because one can make four to six handles of swords from them.. They are sold as a piece, to make handles. An unworked piece sells for a toile, but when it is worked, it can cost three to four talaris. The entire horn has less value and never sells for more t...   details Low, J. 1850 The Karean tribes or aborigines of Martaban and Tavai, with notices of the aborigines in Keddah and Perak. Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia 4: 413-432 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Semangs, Malaysia. The projecting horn on the snout is carefully preserved, being supposed to be possessed of medicinal properties and highly priced by the Malays, to whom they barter it for their tobacco &c.   details Hofland, P.W. 1846 De rhinoceros-hoorn. Tijdschrift Neerlandsch Indie 8 (4): 110-111 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Antidote for snake poison. I must tell you about some extraordinary effects of the rhinoceros horn. Mr Baumgarten of Kraton wrote to his relations in Malacca that he would like to receive some snake-stones to cure snake-bites. They could not comply with his request, as these stones were diffic...   details Roorda van Eysinga, P.P. 1843 Indie, ter bevordering der kennis van Nederlands Oostersche bezittingen. Breda, Nijs, vol. 3, part 1, pp. vi, 1-560 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn of a rhinoceros is regarded by the locals as a talisman or Moesthiko against evil, and the Chinese find it strengthening.   details Crawfurd, J. 1828 Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India to the courts of Siam and Cochin China, exhibiting a view of the actual state of those kingdoms. London, Henry Colburn, pp. i-viii, 1-598 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The rhinoceros horns is much in request on account of its supposed medicinal virtues. The King of Cochinchina has given to the Governor General of India four rhinoceros horns, set in gold feet.   details Virey, J.J. 1811 Traite de pharmacie theorique et pratique. Paris, Remont and Ferra Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The fibres of the nasal horn are believed in India to be very medicinal ('alexitere').   details Virey, J.J. 1811 Traite de pharmacie theorique et pratique. Paris, Remont and Ferra Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The nasal horn is formed from agglutinated fibres.   details Marsden, W. 1811 The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island, 3rd ed. London, Printed for the author, by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, pp. i-viii, 1-479, 1-8 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn is esteemed as an antidote against poison, and on that account formed into drinking cups.   details Nelson, G. 1740 The wonders of nature throughout the world display'd both for diversion and instruction. London, J.Watts, pp. i-viii, 1-475 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species [220] There is the Rhinoceros in the River Ganges, near as big as an Elephant, saving that he is not so tall; his Horn is upon the Snout near a Yard long. He fights with an Elephant, and sometimes overcomes him. His Horn, Teeth and Claws, are used against Poison and many Diseases, and sold at ...   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3