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Title: The peoples of the Happy Valley (East Africa): the aboriginal races of Kondoa Irangi, part II
Author(s): Bagshawe, F.J.
Year published: 1925
Journal: Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume: 24 (94)
Pages: 117-130
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Hunting
Black Rhino
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania - (The arrows to shoot game are poisoned). The poison used is an alkaloid obtained from a plant or tree of the genus Strophanthus. - The poison is fatal to all animals, even elephants and rhinoceros succumbing to it if the arrow can ...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania The Kangeju will eat everything. They are gruesome scavengers, and I have known them to gorge themselves, with evident relish and no apparent ill reults, upon the carcass of a rhinoceros which was polluting the atmosphere for half a...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Value
Black Rhino
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania The Kangeju will eat everything. They are gruesome scavengers, and I have known them to gorge themselves, with evident relish and no apparent ill reults, upon the carcass of a rhinoceros which was polluting the atmosphere for half a...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Value
Black Rhino
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. Left the Kangeju to consume the carcases of two rhinoceroses
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Value
Black Rhino
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania - The string of the bow [weapon] is made of a sinew, usually from the back muscle of the rhinoceros, which, when properly treated, makes a cord of extraordinary strength.
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