 | 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
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| 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... |
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| Carbou, H. 1912 La region du Tchad et du Ouadai: etudes ethnographiques. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-380 |
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Africa - Western Africa - Chad
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| Chad. Rhinoceros horn is used to make buttons for coats and ornaments. |
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| 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 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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| Rhino horn rungus are not uncommon amonst the Masai and Nyarusi, but are stated to have been brought from a distance. |
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| 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 |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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World
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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| 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. |
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| Hooper, D. 1910 Materia medica animalium Indica. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal N.S. 6 (10): 507-522 |
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| The horn had virtues ascribed to it in Europe up to the 19th century. |
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