Reference Base Notes for: Culture - Countries back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    Anonymous 2014 Tutti a far visita a "Rino" – In mostra i colossi del Po. "La Provincia di Cremona", November 11 2014: p. 1, 1 fig [http://www.laprovinciacr.it/news/cronaca/102777/Tutti-a-far-visita-a-.html] Location: Subject: Species: Europe - Southern Europe - Italy Culture - Countries Fossil The article speaks about the international exhibition of the S. kirchbergensis skull from Spinadesco (vide Persico & al, 2014) together with two other very famous rhinoceros skulls previously found in adjacent Po areas.   details Aleksandrova, V.; Billia, E.M.E. 2004 Nosorogi Merka: sledy vedut v Tomsk [Merck 's rhinoceroses: their tracks lead to Tomsk] (an interview). Krasnoe Znamya – Tomskaya Oblastnaya Ezhednevnaya Gazeta [The daily paper of the Tomsk Region], 12 Marta 2004 g-a, Tomsk; n. 32 (25112): p. 4, 1 photo (by A. Kungurov). Location: Subject: Species: Asia - Palearctic Asia Culture - Countries Fossil No details available yet   details Penkina O.; Billia, E.M.E. 2004 V Tomske zhili nosorogi … [In Tomsk lived rhinoceroses …] (an interview). Tomskaya Nedelya – Oblastnaya Nezavisimaya Gazeta [The Regional Independent Journal], 3 Yanvarya 2004 g-a, Tomsk n. 1 (610): p. 7, 1 photo (by S. Zakharov). Location: Subject: Species: Asia - Palearctic Asia Culture - Countries Fossil No details available yet   details Penkina O.; Billia, E.M.E. 2004 Taezhny nosorog – Drevnie mlekopitayuschchie ne uzhilis' s chelovekom ? [The taiga rhinoceros – Ancient mammals didn 't interact with man ?] (an interview). Poisk – Ezhenedel'naya gazeta nauchnogo soobshestva [Poisk – Daily Journal of the Scientific Association], 3 sentyabrya 2004 g-a, n. 36 (798): p. 16. Location: Subject: Species: Asia - Palearctic Asia Culture - Countries Fossil No details available yet   details Internet 2002 Rhino specimens in museums Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Culture - Countries All Rhino Species Bishan Das, ca. 1590. Emperor Babur shoots a rhinoceros; Page from the "scattered" Babur-Nama manuscript, attributed to the painter Bishan Das, ca. 1590. De Burellt collection, Basel, Switzerland, post 1927, Gift from Barbara and Eberhard Fischer. Illustrated (part?) in colour in...   details Gripper, J. 2000 [Various notes]. Sebakwe News 2000 January Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Zimbabwe. Photos of cave paintings on sandstone at the Malilangwe Estate, Chiredzi in the Lowveld. One has an obvious rhinoceros.   details Wan Yi; Wang Shuqing; Lu Yanzhen 1998 Das Leben in der Verbotenen Stadt: Die Qing-Dynastie 1644-1911. Redaktion der deutschen Ausgabe: Friedemann Berger, Dai Shieng, Gu Xiaoyun. Hong Kong, The Commercial Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Culture - Countries All Rhino Species Life in the Lost City, China. Illustrates a miror standing on the back of four single-horned rhinos.   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Nepal's rhino - one of the greatest conservation success stories. Pachyderm 20: 10-26, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-8, tables 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Culture - Countries Indian Rhino Bhaktapur, Nepal - stone rhinos At Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, two rhinos can be seen which were carved from stone several hundred years ago. (with photo by EB Martin)   details Anonymous 1995 Rhino carvings in Ujung Kulon - Patung badak dari Ujung Kulon. Conservation Indonesia Oct-Dec 1995: 16-17, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Culture - Countries Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Culture - Countries Indian Rhino Nepal. I have never found large pieces of rhino horn for retail sale in Nepal (but I have seen antiques such as bowls carved from rhino horn for sale in the Kathmandu Valley).   details Wang Zhentang; Zhao Wenjie; Sun Gang 1993 The eco-environmental model of Rhinoceros extinction in China. Polish Ecological Studies 19 (1/2): 29-34, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Culture - Countries Asian Rhino Species One can conclude that the northern border of the rhinoceros' distribution was ?Hua' from the record in Jiaguwen of Shang Dynasty, that indicated how many (normally 5-6, sometimes 11 or 12 to 16) were captured at several places north of Huang River and south of Tai Hang Mountains.   details Woodhouse, B. 1990 Rhinoceros on the rocks. REF Journal 3: 24-28, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa Culture - Countries African Rhino Species South Africa and Zimbabwe. The fact that the black rhinoceros was cornered and shot in the ruins of an Iron Age village is interesting, but of even greater interest is the fact that adjacent to many of these ruins were, and still are, some of the finest artistic representations of the rhinoceros...   details Majupuria, T.C. 1977 Sacred and symbolic animals of Nepal: animals in the art, culture, myths and legends of the Hindus and Buddhists. Kathmandu, Sahayogi Prakashan, pp. i-ii, i-vi, 1-216 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Culture - Countries All Rhino Species These animals are also modelled and carved out with great accuracy in the wood-works and sculptures. Ancient Hindus treated them as highly sacred. Some books describe that these animals have no significance. But this view is completely wrong. Unicorn Rhinoceros has been frequently depicted on...   details Freiheit, C.F. 1975 Rhinos for the future. Zoo Review Denver 1975 Winter: 4-5, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Culture - Countries Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Brentjes, B. 1969 Eine Darstellung des bengalischen Javanashorns Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis Lesson, 1840. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 17: 209-211, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Culture - Countries All Rhino Species Figure of Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis. An Indian miniature from the 17th century in the private collection of Otto Sohn-Rethel in D?sseldorf has a representation of an animal which has now disappeared from India, the Javan rhinoceros. The picture is from the time of the Mogul emperor Jahangir....   details Cooke, C.K. 1964 Animals in Southern Rhodesian rock art. Arnoldia 1 (13): 1-22, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Zimbabwe - Diceros bicornis. There are 26 sites containing one or more paintings of this animal. These are spread evenly, but sparsely, throughout all the painted areas of Mashonaland from Umtali to Salisbury, in Wedza, Marandellas, Concession and Areturus Districts. There are two occurrences ...   details Cooke, C.K. 1964 Animals in Southern Rhodesian rock art. Arnoldia 1 (13): 1-22, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Zimbabwe - Ceratotherium simum. Five of the sites known contain paintings which can be definitely identified as representations of the White Rhinoceros. These are widely spread, appearing in the Chindamora Reserve, the Matopo Hills, at Melesanga in the Triangle area, and one in the Lower Sabi V...   details Mukherjee, B.N. 1955 'Rhinoceros-slayer' type of coins of Kumaragupta I. Indian Historical Quarterly 31 (2): 175-181 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Culture - Countries Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Yi-Liang, Chou 1945 Notes on Marvazi's account on China. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 9 (1): 13-23 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Culture - Countries Asian Rhino Species [On use of rhino horn to make girdles.]   details Kuehnel, E. 1941 Jagdbilder aus Indien. Atlantis 13: 417-424, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Culture - Countries All Rhino Species Figure of Emperor Jahangir on rhino hunt, ca. 1625. Coll. O.Sohn-Rethel, D?sseldorf. The emperor killed the rhino with a single shot. In the english edition of the memoirs it is stated that he hunts a wolf (II, 270). The translator was unsure if the original had gurg (wolf) or karg (rhinocero...   details Winkler, H.A. 1938 Rock drawings of Southern Upper Egypt, I. Sir Robert Mond desert expedition, season 1936-1937, preliminary report. London, The Egypt Exploration Society and Humphrey Milford Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Northern Africa - Egypt Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Rock engraving upper Egypt. The animals in the frieze are just sketched. With afew lines a spirited picture of each one is given, the elephant and the rhinoceros heavy and strong. The evidence which inclines me to attribute this picture to a Hamitic artist is not strong. We more readily expec...   details Arkell, A.J. 1937 Rock pictures in northern Darfur. Sudan Notes and Records 20 (2): 281-287, pls. 14-22 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Sudan. Two rhinos seen on rock painting at Merbo in Tabago, Sudan.   details Steinmann, A. 1934 Welke dieren vindt men op de Boroboedoer en op enkele Hindoe-Javaansche bouwwerken afgebeeld?. Tropische Natuur 23 (5): 86-96, pls. 1-4, figs. 1-18 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Culture - Countries Asian Rhino Species Borobudur Monument. Two relief fragments. On the second row we see two deer, two rams with long beard, two rhinoceroses, etc. This pair of rhinos (see pl. IVa) is probably the only one found of this species on the Borobudur. The animals show only one horn, which means that they are either Rhi...   details Frobenius, L.; Obermaier, H. 1925 Hadschra Maktuba: urzeitliche Felsbilder Kleinafrikas. Muenchen, Kurt Wolff, pp. i-vii, 1-62 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Northern Africa Culture - Countries African Rhino Species North Africa. The rhinoceros is quite rare. We know dlearly determinable paintings from South Marocco, and from our times, from Oued-Ain-Raimin, near G?ryville [= ca. El-Kasdir in Algeria, 33.43 N, 1.22 W]. Frobenius found further paintings in el-Korema [el Koraima, Morocco, 29.23 N, 10.8 W]. ...   details Breuil, H. 1923 Station de gravures rupestres d'Aguilet Abderrahman (Sahara Central) d'apres les documents rapportes par l'adjudant Fretay. Anthropologie 33: 156-160, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Northern Africa - Algeria Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Algeria. Rock paintings of Aguilet Anderrahman, Central Sahara, near Iguidi, 26.22 N, 6.53 W. There are certainly 2 figures of Rhinoceros simus (fig.4 no.15).   details Reisner, G.A. 1923 Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies 6: pls. 55, 60 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Northern Africa - Egypt Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Excavations at Kerma. Rhinoceros of rawhide - plate only.   details Plowman, C.H.F. 1919 Notes on the Gedamoch ceremonies among the Boran. Journal of the Royal African Society 18 (70): 114-121 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Culture - Countries Black Rhino Gedamoch ceremony among the Boran. Only the son of a past Gedamoch, and therefore a prospective Gedamoch himself, has the privilege of wearing the gutu, and then only after he has killed big game, viz. elephant, rhinoceros or giraffe. Prior to that he is a Ginda, and may not clean, con or oil h...   details Plowman, C.H.F. 1919 Notes on the Gedamoch ceremonies among the Boran. Journal of the Royal African Society 18 (70): 114-121 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Culture - Countries Black Rhino All must keep together and anyone breaking station is soundly beaten with the rhinoceros-hide whips which all are carrying.   details Giles, H.A. 1915 Adversaria Sinica, series 2. Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, pp. 1-60 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Culture - Countries Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Sottas, H. 1914 Etude sur la stele C14 du Louvre. Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie 36: 153-166 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Northern Africa - Egypt Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Stela C14 in Louvre, Paris. There is a passage with a hieroglyph resembling a rhinoceros with one horn, translated as ?ivory'. I have seen products of those hands employed by the director of public works, and from silver and iron to ivory and ebony.   details Coomaraswamy, A.K. 1912 Indian drawings: second series, chiefly Rajput. London, India Society, pp. 1-34, pls. 1-26 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Culture - Countries All Rhino Species Drawing in author's collection: 'Rhinoceros charging elephants', 18 ? x 8 inches; Rajput (Jaipur), 19th century. [rhino with single horn, no saddle] This work, probably late 19th century, though quite realistic, is very amusing; the unconcerned and surly rhino does not bestow a secon...   details Peringuey, L. 1909 On rock engravings of animals and the human figure, found in South Africa. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 18: 401-419, pls. 7-15, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Culture - Countries African Rhino Species South Africa. Rhino found on rock paintings in the Cape Province. Identified as Rhinoceros simus. They were made anterior to the immigration of the Hottentots.   details Tongue, M. H. 1909 Bushman paintings. Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. 1-47 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Culture - Countries African Rhino Species South Africa. Rock paintings with rhinoceros found and illustrated in: Zandfontein; Baviaans Krantz, Jonasfontein, Roodekop, Zandfontein (Molteno dt.).   details Werner, A. 1908 Bushman paintings. Journal of the Royal African Society 7 (28): 387-393 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Busjman paintings, review. The rhinoceros occurs several times.   details Peters, J.P.; Thiersch, H. 1905 Painted tombs in the Necropolis of Marissa (Mareshah). London, Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, pp. i-xvii, 1-101, pls. 1-22 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Northern Africa - Egypt Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Painted tombs in Necropolis of Marissa (Mareshah). The last section on the south wall of tomb I consists of two very large, exotic animals, of which the first is a bulky rhinoceros [plate X]. The hige head with the small, round eyes set much too low down, produces a comical rather than a terrib...   details Aymonier, E. 1904 Le Cambodge, III: Le groupe d'Angkor et l'histoire. Paris, Ernest Leroux Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Cambodia Culture - Countries Asian Rhino Species The cage of the rhinoceros. Towards the oriental extremity of this group, Francis Garnier, following Lagr?e, recorded a small ruin which excaped our attention. Both authors say the following: ?About 2 km from the village of Preah Dak, following the modern route eastwards, we find a rather stran...   details Gregory, J.W. 1896 The great Rift Valley, being the narrative of a journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo, with some account of the geology, natural history, anthropology, and future prospects of British East Africa. London, John Murray, pp. i-xxi, 1-422 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Culture - Countries African Rhino Species Kenya. A Bushman rock painting of Burchell's rhinoceros.   details Hirth, F. 1885 China and the Roman orient: researches into their ancient and mediaeval relations as represented in old Chinese records. Leipzic and Munich, Georg Hirth and Shanghai and Hongkong, Kelly and Walsh, pp. i-xvii, 1-330 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Culture - Countries All Rhino Species Translation of Hou-hn-shu, chapter 88: hsi-yu-chuen, the first principal account of Ta-t'sin. This lasted until the 9th year of the Yen-shi period during the Emperor Huna-ti's reign (AD 166) when the king of Ta-ts'in, An-tun, sent an embassy which, from the frontier of Jik-nan (Annam) offered iv...   details Casalis, E. 1859 Les Bassoutos: ou vingt-trois annees de sejour et d'observations au sud de l'Afrique. Paris, Ch. Meyrueis et Cie, pp. i-vi, 1-370 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Culture - Countries African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Pallegoix, J.B. 1839 Relation d'un voyage a Chanthaburi, suivie d'un apercu sur la tribu des Tchongs. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (2) 12: 169-181 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Culture - Countries Asian Rhino Species People living in the forest hunt tigers, bears, rhinoceros, buffalo, wild cows and deer.The method to get to the rhinoceros is very curious. Four or five men take solid pieces of bamboo, the point of which is very sharp and has been strengthened in the fire. Armed like this, they go to the plac...   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal