 | Hurgronje, C. Snouck 1903 Het Gajoland en zijne bewoners. Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, pp. i-xx, 1-452 |
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| People place snares on the paths of elephants. When the animal steps in it, a heavy log falls down, which has a sharp bamboo or a iron point at the end. This was directed such that it hits the elephant in the back. This instrument, called gedabohan, is also much used to kill the rhinoceros. |
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| Nieuwenhuis, A.W. 1900 In Centraal Borneo: reis van Pontianak naar Samarinda. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-369, i-xvi |
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| Local hunting methods of the Punan. These people do not get far in hunting large animals like the rhinoceros as illustrated by this story. When one of them sees the spoor, many men go together, mostly armed with spears, and they try to get near the animal when it is asleep or when it does not n... |
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| Thomas, O. 1885 Report on the mammals obtained and observed by Mr HH Johnston on Mount Kilima-njaro. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1885 March 3: 219-221 |
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| Animals obtained by H.H. Johnston around Kilima-Njaro. These horns were brought in to Mr Johnston by the Akamba people who obtain them by killing the animals with poisoned arrows. |
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| Morgan, J. de 1885 Exploration dans la presqu'île malaise. L'Homme (Journal illustré des sciences anthropologiques) 2 (18-21): 545-559, 577-587, 609-623, 641-656, figs. 117-146 |
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The Sakaye only shoot elephant, buffalo and rhinoceros from a very close distance. They always aim at the eyes, and the arrow goes through up to the bones of the skull. Such a wound made with small poisoned arrows is enough to kill the monsters of the forest. If the animal dies, it do... |
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| Errington de la Croix, J. 1882 Etude sur les Sakaies du Perak (presqu'ile de Malacca). Revue d'Ethnographie 1: 317-341 |
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| The Sakai tribe in Malaysia hunt animal with poisoned arrows. |
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| Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 |
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| When the people hunt it, one will shoot the animal, which then runs towards the hunter. Another man will jump to the animal's side and cuts the nerves in the hind leg. The rhinoceros then falls down. |
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| Hasselt, A.L. van 1881 Ethnographische atlas van Midden-Sumatra, met verklarende tekst. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i, 1-63 |
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| The plate shows the Pantjaboe Gadjah, a spear that falls down used in the Kota to kill elephant, rhinoceros and other game. Only those laces are suitable for this device where there are two heavy trees at a distance of 1 ? meters at each side of the trail where the animal used to pass. Between ... |
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| Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 |
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| The Malays catch the rhinoceros in pits, which are covered with branches and dry leaves, and which are surrounded by cut trees or poles, which cut off the retreat of the animal. |
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| Bickmore, A.S. 1868 Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. 1-555 |
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| In the path, from place to place, the natives had made pits 8 or 10 feet long, anbd about 3 wide and 5 or 6 deep. Each was covered over with sticks, on which dirt was laid, and any leaves were scattered over the whole so as to perfectly conceal all appearance of danger. It is so nearly of the p... |
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| 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 |
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| The inhabitants of the forests hunt the rhinoceros. Four to five men take solid bamboos of which the point is hardened in fire. They go into the places where the animal is found and by shouting and clapping of hands they try to make it leave their hiding places. When they see the furious anima... |
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