Reference Base Notes for: Value back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5)  ... 2 3 4 5  Bagshawe, F.J. 1925 The peoples of the Happy Valley (East Africa): the aboriginal races of Kondoa Irangi, part II. Journal of the Royal African Society 24 (94): 117-130 Location: Subject: Species: 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   details Bagshawe, F.J. 1925 The peoples of the Happy Valley (East Africa): the aboriginal races of Kondoa Irangi, part II. Journal of the Royal African Society 24 (94): 117-130 Location: Subject: Species: 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.   details Bayer, L. 1924 Wild life on and around Mount Elgon, Equatorial East Africa Part II: The ascent of Mount Elgon. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 27 (1): 2-11, figs. 1-13 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value African Rhino Species Kenya, hide as shields. Black rhino was more numerous at the base of the Escarpment of Mt Elgon. Probably the tall, warlike Suk, who use parts of its hide as shields, do not pursue it into these strongholds.   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species There is demand for their flesh, and on the part of the Chinese, particularly for their horns, which Mr Douglas burden tells me are also in demand in French Indo-China.   details Sanborn, E.R. 1924 Indian rhinoceros. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 27 (3): 72, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Value Indian Rhino New York Zool Society acquired a young female for $ 8000.   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species There is demand for their flesh, and on the part of the Chinese, particularly for their horns, which Mr Douglas burden tells me are also in demand in French Indo-China.   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value Asian Rhino Species Burma. There is demand for their flesh.   details Elshout, J.M. 1923 Over de geneeskunde der Kenja-Dajak in Centraal-Borneo in verband met hunnen godsdienst. Amsterdam, Johannes Muller Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Kalimantan Value Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Jongejans, J. 1922 Ons mooi Indie: uit Dajakland, kijkjes in het leven van den koppensneller en zijne omgeving. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, pp. 1-290 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Borneo - penis. The Dajak likes his offspring and if no birth occurs, he will try all kinds of remedies. They will hold the sexual part of a killed rhinoceros above the head of the woman, and the man will take a medicine, made from a piece of wood, that is stuck in the river and is moved around...   details Kreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1922, Sumatra, the price of one horn varies from 30 to 50 guilders, the white kind is much more valuable   details Kreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Sumatra. Medicine called L? Soemboe Badeue, which is water in which a rhinoceros horn was soaked. It is drunk as a medicine against witchcraft.   details Buennemeyer, H.A.B. 1921 Reizen in het bergland van Midden-Sumatra, II Over de dwarsketen van den Barisan, uitgaande van de Koerintji-Vallei. Tropische Natuur 10 (3): 33-37, figs. 5-7 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species When I stayed at the peak of Koerintji, there would have been there a white rhinoceros, whose horn is much valued by the locals as a 'obat' or rather 'djimat', but fortunately I never met him.   details Kops, G.F. de Bruijn 1919 Overzicht van Zuid-Sumatra. Amsterdam, Zuid-Sumatra Instituut, pp. i-viii, 1-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1919, Sumatra, for a large horn f 200 (guilders) can be fetched   details Kops, G.F. de Bruijn 1919 Overzicht van Zuid-Sumatra. Amsterdam, Zuid-Sumatra Instituut, pp. i-viii, 1-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Sumatra. The rhinoceros horn is an ingredient of medicine much sought after by eastern people, for instance for poisonous bites of snakes and scorpions) and in thin slices as an amulet.   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 Value Black Rhino All must keep together and anyone breaking station is soundly beaten with the rhinoceros-hide whips which all are carrying.   details New York Zoo 1918 Death of the Indian rhinoceros. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 21 (5): 1673 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Value Indian Rhino Male in New York, when only one year the cost to us was $6000, and ever since he reached full maturity he had been valued by the Zool Soc at $ 25.000   details Wroughton, R.C. 1918 Bombay Natural History Society's mammal survey of India, Burma and Ceylon: Report no. 29: Pegu. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 25 (3): 472-481 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1918, Burma, which are worth from Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1,500 to a native shikari. Every part of the animal is saleable. A good horn alone is worth from Rs. 800 to Rs. 1,000, and almost any horn is worth from Rs. 400 to Rs. 500   details Woodhouse, C.W. 1916 Game and war. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 5 (10): 71-76, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value African Rhino Species WW II - Kenya. A large number of rhinoceros have been shot, especially by the enemy. Regular rhinoceros parties used to go out from Taveta and Salaita to kill rhinoceros with, it appears, the double object of providing meat for African troups and sport for the German officers.   details Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value Asian Rhino Species Sumatra - hide. The hide is cut into strings and used as a whip.   details Shelford, R.W.C. 1916 A naturalist in Borneo. Edited with a biographical introduction by Edward B. Poulton. London, T.Fisher Unwin, pp. i-xxxviii, 1-331 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn is much prized by the Chinese for medicinal purposes, but the other parts of the animal, having no commercial value, are not brouyght down by the inland natives to the bazaars of the river towns and Government stations.   details Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn, 'tjoela badak', is valuable as an amulet and as a medicine. Javanese and Malay people use the scrapings against snakebites and rabid dogs, against vegetable poisons, scorpion-stings, skin diseases [schurftachtige huiduitslagen] and other ailments.   details Gairdner, K.G. 1915 Notes on the fauna and flora of Ratburi and Petchaburi districts. Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam 1 (3): 131-156 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value Asian Rhino Species Thailand. The cook collected all the dried excrement he could find, the Chinese having great faith in anything connected with the rhinoceros as medicine.   details Kloppenburg-Versteegh, J. 1915 Wenken en raadgevingen betreffende het gebruik van Indische planten, vruchten enz 3rd edition. Semarang, Soerabaia, Den Haag, G.C.T. van Dorp and Co, pp. 1, 1-328, i-viii Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Even in olden days, rhinoceros horn scrapings were mixed with water and used against poisonings, especially when the poison which had been taken was directed towards the nervous system. Rhinoceros horn has a very calming effect.   details Kreemer, J. 1915 Volksheilkunde im Malaiischen Archipel. Janus 20: 365-408 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Rhinoceros horn (Javanese tjula, Malay tjula). The Javan rub it on a soft stone with some water, which produces a milky juice, which they use as a medicine against snakebite and rabies, as well as poisonous plants (van Hien). Mixed with water and drunk it would strengthen the body and remove al...   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1914, Java, The Chinese and Arabs will pay 10 to 20 guilders for these and for a large horn they will give 50 guilders or more.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species In Deli too there is the superstition that poisonous drinks poured into a horn will be discovered by foaming. The horns are therefore very expensive.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The natives believe that the horn of the rhinoceros will detect poison when it is put in a liquid. It is called Tandokh-badak. The Malay and Sundanese call it Tjoela-badakh. Amulets made of the horn will ward off any kind of accident. The Chinese and Arabs will pay 10 to 20 guilders for these...   details San Antonio, G.Q. de 1914 Breve et veridique relation des evenements du Cambodge Nouvelle edition du texte espagnol avec une traduction et des notes par A. Cabaton. Paris, Ernest Leroux, pp. i-vii, i-xxviii, 1-261 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Cambodia Value Asian Rhino Species Description de Cambodge. Les rhinoc?ros [badas] y sont nombreux - hors de ce pays il n'y en a point, sauf ? Sofala, qui est une contr?e d'Afrique o? ils ne sont pas aussi bons que ceux du Cambodge. - La corne, la peau, le sang, les d?fenses et les dents, ainsi que l'ongle du pied gauche de cet an...   details Carbou, H. 1912 La region du Tchad et du Ouadai: etudes ethnographiques. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Chad Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Chad. Rhinoceros horn is used to make buttons for coats and ornaments.   details Carbou, H. 1912 La region du Tchad et du Ouadai: etudes ethnographiques. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Woodhouse, C.W. 1912 The game of the North Kavirondo District, Nyanza province. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 3 (5): 28-36 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Rhino horn rungus are not uncommon amonst the Masai and Nyarusi, but are stated to have been brought from a distance.   details Giran, P. 1912 Magie & religion annamites: introduction ? une philosophie de la civilisation du peuple d'Annam. Paris, Augustin Challamel, pp. 1, i-v, 1-449 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species We notice that the magical powers can as well reside in a part of the animal as it can in the animal in its entirety. The horn of the rhinoceros ... is as powerful as the animal to which the object belongs. Those who can obtain a rhinoceros horn and mould it in the form of a fish, if this obj...   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species In the south-west of Kordofan the natives have a tradition that anyone who drinks out of a cup made from a rhinoceros horn never gets sick.   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Rhinoceros horn is used for making handles for walking sticks and umbrellas, it is easily cut with a knife and if a fragment be soaked in weak caustic alkali solution it will soften and flake in the same way that our finger nails and patches of hard skin soften under the influences of soap and wa...   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species The long front horn of the rhinoceros is sometimes fashioned into sticks to beat cattle and goats, and occasionally it is made into clubs for Masai orators and councillors.   details Fischer, L.S. 1910 Tochten naar Boven-Boeloengan en de Apo-Kajan (Zuider- en Ooster-Afdeeling van Borneo). Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 27: 263-306, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Borneo - Upper Bulungan. During this part of the journey, we killed a rhinoceros, a bear, a wild dog, kidangs, and later along the river, a deer and some wild pigs. All that meat was eaten by the Dajaks and also by ourselves with the exception of the wild dog.   details Merens, D. 1910 De Bem Brem stroomversnellingen. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 27: 529-558, figs. 1-14, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Borneo, Apo Kajan. We even killed a rhinoceros, whose heart [hart wand] gave us quite a fine steak.   details Drake Brockman, R.E. 1910 The mammals of Somaliland. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvii, 1-201 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Value African Rhino Species Somaliland. The Somalis value the hide for their shields, and whip-handles are made of it.   details Maes, J. 1910 Le jardin zoologique d'Anvers: album - guide illustre. Antwerp, Zoological Society of Antwerp, pp. 1-32 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Value Indian Rhino Animal in Antwerp Zoo from 1907 was bought for 25,000 francs.   details Basu, B. 1910 Report of the Honorary Committee for the Management of the Zoological Garden, for the year 1909-10. Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Depot, pp. 1-24 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Value Indian Rhino Calcutta Zoo purchased two male Indian rhino from Nepal for Rs. 15,000.   details Hooper, D. 1910 Materia medica animalium Indica. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal N.S. 6 (10): 507-522 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Linschoten devotes a chapter to the value of the various parts of this animal. He says 'Their horns in India are much esteemed and used against all venime, poyson and many other diseases; likewise his teeth, claws, flesh, skin and blood, and his very dung and water and all, whatsever is about hi...   details Hooper, D. 1910 Materia medica animalium Indica. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal N.S. 6 (10): 507-522 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species The urine from the animal preserved in the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, is in great demand to the present day as a tonic for the treatment of enlarged spleen. It was analysed by Col. L.A. Wadell in 1893 (Indian Medical Gazette, May), who found it to be alkaline in reaction to have phosphate in ...   details Hooper, D. 1910 Materia medica animalium Indica. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal N.S. 6 (10): 507-522 Location: Subject: Species: Europe Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The horn had virtues ascribed to it in Europe up to the 19th century.   details Hooper, D. 1910 Materia medica animalium Indica. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal N.S. 6 (10): 507-522 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value Asian Rhino Species blood, Burma. The dried blood of the rhino (Rh. sondaicus) is used in Moulmein as an important medicine under the name of Kyan Thwe. The blood is dried in the gut of the bowel and resembles black pudding. The price is one rupee per tical or one rupee in weight. It's valued by Burmans and Chin...   details Eardley-Wilmot, S. 1910 Forest life and sport in India. London, Edward Arnold, pp. i-xi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Europe Value Indian Rhino The history of one half of his hide [animal shot in Gorakhpur] given to me by Mr Clutterbuck was curious. I brought to England a monstrous slab some inches in thickness and it remained on my hands until I was die to return to India. Already I had in contemplation a midnight journey through Lond...   details Andel, M.A. van 1909 Volksgeneeskunst in Nederland. Utrecht, J.van Boekhoven, pp. i-xi, 1-459 Location: Subject: Species: Europe Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Cure for Rachitis - the horn of he unicorn, derived from the rhinoceros, more often from the narwhal. It was worn as an amulet (charm) or used as poweder internally, guarding against all poisons and dangerous substances.   details Meyer, H. 1909 Das Deutsche Kolonialreich, vol 1: Ostafrika und Kamerun. Leipzig und Wien, Bibliographisches Institut, pp. i-xii, 1-650 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Value African Rhino Species Tanzania. From the thick hide of rhinos the people in East Africa cut elastic parts, which are erroneously called Kiboko (hippopotamus), although most of them come from the Kifaru (rhino).   details Tehupeiory, J.E. 1906 Onder de Dajaks in Centraal Borneo: een reisverhaal. Batavia, G. Kolff and Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-xvi, 1-219 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species At Apo Kajan, Borneo. After a head hunting expedition, they are given sago with pork and rhinoceros meat.   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value Asian Rhino Species Sumatra. A female Sumatran Rhino killed in Tandjung Laut. After we had skinned the animal on the spot, the Chinese people who had helped me asked me for the stomach of the rhinoceros. I granted their request, upoin which they cut the stomach open and took out the contents, a large mass looking...   details Kruyt, A.C. 1906 Het animisme in den Indischen Archipel. s Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, pp. i-xvi, 1-541 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value Asian Rhino Species Java. Scrapings of a rhino tooth can be applied to a spot on the body where a splinter has entered the body, which can no longer be seen. The meaning is obvious. With the same expectation one drinks water, in which you have put a rhino tooth, in which water has been transferred the soul of the ...   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value Asian Rhino Species hoofs - Sumatra. A planter living in Tandjung Laut, Sumatra saw a pair of Sumatran Rhino in a wallow around noon. The hoofs were stolen by a Chinese supervisor.   details Skeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Malaysia, Semang tribe. The horn is supposed to be possessed with medicinal properties, and is highly prized by the Malays, to whom the Semang genrally barter it for tobacco and similar commodities.   details Maxwell, W.G. 1906 Mantra Gajah. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 1-53 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Medicine to make an elephant fat (mantra gajah). This is another remedy: we take the skin of a rhinoceros' navel and soak it in water with some Siamese salt and some honey. Then we give the elephant the skin to eat with its food: we pour the liquid over the elephant and give it some to drink. ...   details Sanborn, E.R. 1906 The new rhinoceros. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 22: 285-286, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Value Black Rhino New York Zoo - Diceros bicornis from Tanzania. Considering the rarity, the price paid was not excessive, yet it can be safely mentioned that no other animal in the collection either exceeds or nearly equals the cost of this specimen.   details Chakravarti, M. 1906 Animals in the inscriptions of Piyadasi. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1 (17): 361-374 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value Asian Rhino Species Ancient India By the older Dharma-Sutrakars, the flesh of the rhino was permitted to be eaten, though one of the five-toed animals. Its flesh, if offered in the Sraddha, was deemed to gives special pleasures to the Fathers. Gradually, however, the feelings changed. In the time of Vasistha and...   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Sumatra - anti-poison. The shavings of rhino horn, as well as the cups made from the whole horn, are said to possess the mysterious property that it foams up as soon as a poisonous substance touches it. As many Malay and other local royalty live in constant fear of being poisoned, and not just ...   details Clement, E.W. 1906 Japanese medical folk-lore. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 35: 15-32, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Japan Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 'Usaikaku', or Rhinoceros horns. The horns of the rhino are powdered and used as a specific in fever cases of all kinds.   details Chakravarti, M. 1906 Animals in the inscriptions of Piyadasi. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1 (17): 361-374 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The rhinoceros was placed in the class Anupa (Car.Sutra xxvii. 37; subclass kulacarah, Sus. Ch. xlvi.). Its flesh is said to be a destroyer of cough, astringent, remover of winds, good for liver, pure, life prolonger, restrainer of urine and keeper (of health?) (Susi, ch. xlvi). Its flesh is pr...   details Wray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species [Animal shot and skinned] Some Chinese woodcutters begged for the flesh. They also took other parts of the body for medicinal purposes.   details Wray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value Asian Rhino Species Malaysia. [Animal shot and skinned] Some Chinese woodcutters begged for the flesh, and removed practically the whole of it.   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Burmans and Chinamen place a very high value on the horn and blood of rhinoceroses as medicinal articles. Wherein their virtues as drugs lie I do not know, but they are supposed to be most potent, especially in all diseases not yielding to ordinary drugs. I expect their fictitious powers are de...   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value Asian Rhino Species Burma. The flesh of these animals is said by Burmans, etc., to be very good. A friend of mine declares it is so and that the liver is perhaps better than that of some other animals. I have not tried any myself being contented with ordinary fare.   details Nieuwenhuis, A.W.; Nieuwenhuis, M. 1904 Quer durch Borneo - Ergebnisse seiner Reise in den Jahren 1894, 1896-97 und 1898-1900. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-493 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Borneo. Climb of Batu Lesong. Our Kajan got hungry when he saw all the spoor of wild dogs and rhinoceroses.   details Watt, G. 1904 Indian art at Delhi 1903: being the official catalogue of the Delhi exhibition 1902-1903. London, John Murray Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species A cup made of rhinoceros-horn is much prized by Hindus, but that material is too scarce to be of much value.   details Watt, G. 1904 Indian art at Delhi 1903: being the official catalogue of the Delhi exhibition 1902-1903. London, John Murray Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value Asian Rhino Species India - shields. One of the most artistic articles made of skin may be said to be the carved rhinoceros-hide shields, boxes, etc. that are produced at Ahmedabad, Surat, Baroda and Kach. An example is hown on plate no. 43-B. The designs most generally used are panels showing intricate and elabo...   details Pelliot, P. 1902 Memoires sur les coutumes du Cambodge. Bulletin de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient 2 (2): 123-177 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Indochina Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Translates book by Tcheou Ta-Kouan, of the Yuan dynasty, called Ts'ao-t'ing. Cambodia - among the more precious productions, there are ivory and rhinoceros horn. The white horn is veined and much esteemed; the inferior quality is black. Pellito 1902; the horn is also part of some medicines. T...   details Regnault, J. 1902 Medicine et pharmacie chez les Chinois et chez les Annamites. Paris, A.Challamel, pp. i-x, 1-233 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Pharmalogical index for China. 345. Si kio - small horn of the double-horned rhinoceros 346. Si p'i - hide of the rhino.   details Skeat, W.W. 1900 Malay magic, being an introduction on the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xiv, 1-685 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Malaysia. The tiger, elephant and rhinoceros were not mere brutes to be attacked and destroyed. The immense advantages which their strength and bulk gave them over the feebly-armed savage of the most primitive tribes naturally suggested the possession of supernatural powers; and propitiation, n...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value African Rhino Species Ceratotherium simum - South Africa. Selous states that between August and March this animal is in a very good condition, and that the meat is then excellent.   details Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Value African Rhino Species Somalia. In the case of the elephant his ivory is his ruin, but the Rhino fortunately for him is not so valuably furnished, and thus enjoys comparative immunity from persecution. The non-professional hunter should ordinarily be content with two or three good specimens, and the Somali does not pa...   details Skeat, W.W. 1900 Malay magic, being an introduction on the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xiv, 1-685 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value Asian Rhino Species Malaysia. The rhinoceros horn (called chula) is believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac.   details Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value Asian Rhino Species Thailand, value of blood In Feb 1897 Siamese Museum acquired a specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus. I may mention that to skin this animal we had any number of eager volunteers, mostly Siamese women, who in return for the work of removing the skin only wanted to have some of the blood. The rhinoc...   details Schweinfurth, G.; Volkens, G. 1898 Faune de Somalie: pp. 177-178 In: Ghika, N.D. Cinq mois au pays des Somalis. Geneve and Bale, Georg and Co: pp. i-vi, 1-223 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Value African Rhino Species Somaliland. Hide regarded as valuable by the Somalis.   details Knebel, J. 1898 Amulettes Javanaises. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal Land en Volkenkunde 40: 497-507 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value Asian Rhino Species Java. Kaloeng-oentoening-warak, the tooth of a rhinoceros worn on a chain. The tooth is made into the shape of a coin with a hole in the middle. To this is attached on the left and the right a piece of gold thread. The child who wears this chain does not suffer when it is bitten by a poisonou...   details Henri d'Orleans 1898 De Tonkin aux Indes, Janvier 1895 - Janvier 1896. Paris, Calmann Levy, pp. i, 1-442 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value Asian Rhino Species N. Burma, near India border. The guide explained to me that these are rhinoceroses with two horns and that their meat is quite good.   details Hien, H.A. van 1896 De Javaansche geestenwereld en de betrekking, die tusschen de geesten en de zinnelijke wereld bestaat, verduidelijkt door Petangan's of tellingen, bij de Javanen in gebruik, vol 2: De Tengeran's. Semarang, G.C.T. van Dorp and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-175 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Tjoela-warak. The horn of the rhinoceros is worshipped by the Javans. Pieces of the horn are carried when travelling to ward against accidents. The worship of the horn is probably based on its great medicinal value. When the horn is rubbed on a soft stone with some water, one gets a milky sub...   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1895 Seventeen trips through Somaliland. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xx, 1-386 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Ethiopia. Only important Abyssinians are allowed to be in possession of rhino horns. They make sword handles and drinking cups of them.   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1895 Seventeen trips through Somaliland. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xx, 1-386 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Value African Rhino Species Somaliland. The Abbusgal, Malingur, and Rer Amaden tribes eat their flesh when hungry, and I found it very good and lived for a week on it.   details Schefer, C. 1895 Notice sur les relations des peuples Musulmans avec les Chinois, l'extension de l'islamisme jusqu'a la fin du XVe siecle. Centenaire de l'ecole des langues orientales vivantes 1895: 1-43 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Translation from a chapter on China found n 11th century treatise by Hafiz el Gharb, with title El gacd ouel amem fit ta'arif bioucel enssats il arab ... The most esteemed ornament are made from the horn of the rhinoceros, which presents to the eye a variety of figures and shapes until it is cut...   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Value African Rhino Species SomalilandWe could usually cut from 15 to 30 shields from each rhinoceros, 3/4 inch thick and 15 inches in diameter, worth about a dollar apiece at the coast.   details Dundas, F.G. 1893 Expedition up the Jub River through Somalil-land, east Africa. Geographical Journal, London 1 (3): 209-222 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Value Black Rhino The Somalis. The men are all armed with the long spear, small round rhinoceros-hide shield, and short stabbing knife   details Waddell, L.A. 1893 Rhinoceros urine in Indian medicine. Indian Medical Gazette May 1893: 167 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Value Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Carleton, G.D. 1892 Notes on a part of the Somali country. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 21: 160-172, pl. 15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Value African Rhino Species Bedouins. The shield is of oryx-antelope skin or (the best) rhinoceros-hide. The rhinoceros ones are the whitest and are generally covered to preserve them from being soiled.   details Meyer, J.J. 1891 Tjarita Ki-Asdoera: het verhaal van Ki-Asdoera: tekst, vertaling en aanteekeningen, met eene inleiding en opmerking over de spreektaal in Zuid-Banten. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (5) 6: 347-384 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value Asian Rhino Species Indonesia. The whole animal will fetch 150 guilders and more. Besides the horn, the important parts are the incisors (menoer) which are put in rings. And also the hide, that is used against the 'hama koengkang' (stenocoris varicornis), an insects that appears in swarms when the new fruits from...   details Meyer, J.J. 1891 Tjarita Ki-Asdoera: het verhaal van Ki-Asdoera: tekst, vertaling en aanteekeningen, met eene inleiding en opmerking over de spreektaal in Zuid-Banten. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (5) 6: 347-384 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value Asian Rhino Species Indonesia. The dried skins are also exported to Batavia, where they are bought by the Chinese who use it in the preparartion of a kind of 'keroepoek'.   details Bartlett, E. 1891 Notes on the Bornean rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891 December 1: 654-655, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Borneo. Skull No. 3 resembles in every respect one which is in the possession of my father (Mr. A. D. Bartlett), which I remember perfectly well, although without particulars. My memory tells me that my father's specimen appeared as though it had been burnt over a fire, exactly like Nos. 3 and ...   details Bartlett, E. 1891 Notes on the Bornean rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891 December 1: 654-655, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The above-mentioned skulls and horns came from the jungle regions of the upper Rajah River, inhabited by the Kyans, a dangerous race of people, very distinct fron the Dyaks. These Kyans procure the horns for barter, for which they receive a high price from the Chinese, who import them to China f...   details Meyer, J.J. 1891 Tjarita Ki-Asdoera: het verhaal van Ki-Asdoera: tekst, vertaling en aanteekeningen, met eene inleiding en opmerking over de spreektaal in Zuid-Banten. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (5) 6: 347-384 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn (tjoela) of the rhinoceros has a high value. It may be assumed to be known that it takes an important place in the local and Chinese medicine. It cures ailments of the chest, snake bites, internal and external wounds, and poisoning.   details Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1890, Java, One horn sells for 40 to 150 florins   details Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The carcass of a rhino is prized by the natives, especially by the Java Chinese, who even use the skin in preparations of food. The hide resembles that of a hippopotamus. The horn is highly valued by natives, who belive it will extract the poison of applied to the bite of a serpent or scorpion....   details Ende, L. von 1889 Die Baduwis auf Java. Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien 19: 7-13 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Value Asian Rhino Species Tribe of Baduwis, East Java. They are allowed to eat the meat of wild animals, including the rhinoceros and banteng.   details Anderson, J. 1889 Report on the mammals, reptiles, and batrachians, chiefly from the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 21: 331-350 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value Asian Rhino Species The dried hide of which is sold in Mergui bazaars for food.   details Noack, T. 1887 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Ost- und Central-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 2: 193-202, pls. 8-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Value African Rhino Species Report by Richard B?hm - Tanzania. In Feb 1883 a female with young was shot, the meat was fat and 'schwammig.'   details Johnston, H.H. 1886 The Kilima-Njaro expedition: a record of scientific exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa, and a general fescription of the natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilima-Njaro district. London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, pp. i-xv, 1-572 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1886, Tanzania, horns may be bought in the interior for a few pence worth of cloth, and sold on the coast for 3-4 rupees each   details Hornaday, W.T. 1885 Two years in the jungle: the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. London, Kegan Paul and Trench, pp. i-xxii, 1-512 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Singapore Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1885, Singapore, on the market, I was offered a rhinoceros at $250   details Hymans van Anrooy, H.A. 1885 Nota omtrent het rijk van Siak. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal Land en Volkenkunde 30: 259-390 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1885, Sumatra, per horn $20 - $60, white horn $60 a piece   details Felkin, R.W. 1885 Notes on the For tribe of Central Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 8: 205-265 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Superstitions of For tribe, living in Darfur, Sudan. Cups made of rhinoceros horn are supposed to detect poison in water, beer, or wine, the fluid changing colour; to give one of these cups to a friend is the highest honour that can be paid to him. (I think this ideas must have been derived from...   details Hymans van Anrooy, H.A. 1885 Nota omtrent het rijk van Siak. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal Land en Volkenkunde 30: 259-390 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Kingdom of Siak. Every rhinoceros found must be offered to the Sultan. The finder receives a persalinan for this. The horn is much sought after as a medicine and it is said to act well against snake bites. A rhinoceros horn is worth between $ 20 and $ 60. Sometimes a white horn is found, for...   details Burg, C.L. van der 1885 De geneesheer in Nederlandsch-Indie, III. Matera Indica. Batavia, Ernst and Co, pp. i-xx, 1-856 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species In such a rhino horn people pour water, which must remain in it for a minimum of 12 hours, preferably by night. That water is a cure for exhausting diseases, especially consumption of the lungs. Disks cut from the horn, or small cuttings, have special power against snake bite. Maybe this can b...   details Sclater, P.L. 1885 Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie in April 1885. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1885 April 21: 421 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Value Sumatran Rhino Purchased from Mr. Cross of Liverpool on 16 April 1885 for ?500, a pair of Sumatran rhinoceros, these are young animals   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5)  ... 2 3 4 5