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Cockburn, J. 1899. Cave drawings in the Kaimur range, North-West provinces. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31 (1): 89-97.

Cave drawings in the Kaimur range, North-West provinces

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

The more ancient drawings are often very elaborate and exhibit considerable skill, as will be seen by reference to the plate of the rhinoceros hunt, which covered about square yards of rock. The drawing is executed with a degree of boldness and accuracy as regards zoological detail quite beyond the natives of India at the present day. The position of the man tossed by the rhinoceros, sprawling in the air, is ridiculously like a picture in Baldwin’s African hunting.
(96) and I came across an injured drawing to once rhinoceros.

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