 | 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 |
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| 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... |
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| Arkell, A.J. 1937 Rock pictures in northern Darfur. Sudan Notes and Records 20 (2): 281-287, pls. 14-22 |
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| Sudan. Two rhinos seen on rock painting at Merbo in Tabago, Sudan. |
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| 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 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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| 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... |
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| Frobenius, L.; Obermaier, H. 1925 Hadschra Maktuba: urzeitliche Felsbilder Kleinafrikas. Muenchen, Kurt Wolff, pp. i-vii, 1-62 |
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| 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]. ... |
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| 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 |
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| 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). |
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| Reisner, G.A. 1923 Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies 6: pls. 55, 60 |
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| Excavations at Kerma. Rhinoceros of rawhide - plate only. |
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| Plowman, C.H.F. 1919 Notes on the Gedamoch ceremonies among the Boran. Journal of the Royal African Society 18 (70): 114-121 |
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| 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... |
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| Plowman, C.H.F. 1919 Notes on the Gedamoch ceremonies among the Boran. Journal of the Royal African Society 18 (70): 114-121 |
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| All must keep together and anyone breaking station is soundly beaten with the rhinoceros-hide whips which all are carrying. |
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| Giles, H.A. 1915 Adversaria Sinica, series 2. Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, pp. 1-60 |
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| Sottas, H. 1914 Etude sur la stele C14 du Louvre. Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie 36: 153-166 |
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| 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. |
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