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Asia - East Asia - China |
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All Rhino Species |
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Fake horn cups. The use of rhinoceros horn as an aphrodisiac in Chinese medicine is well known. Faced now with the near estinction of the Malaysian species of rhinoceros which are at the same time well protected by game laws, it is not surprising if substitute horns are being produced. Hooijer (1959) points out that imitation horns may be seen displayed prominently in Chinese medicine shops in Djakarta as, what he claims to be, advertisements for the genuine horn. I have, however, failed to see any being put to such use in Malaya. It furthermore seems to me highly unlikely that these imitations would have been prepared so painstakingly merely for this purpose. For the present, I am accepting them merely as fakes which have heen manufactured solely for disposal as genuine items.
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Imitation rhino horns
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