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The art of
rhinoceros horn carving in China
The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China is an outstanding illustrated survey of pieces from some of the world's finest and most unusual private and public collections.During her years as Far Eastern Curator at the Chester Beatty Library ...
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Ivory,
Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and
Rhinoceros ...
As recently as ten years ago, out of every ten African elephants that died, four fell at the hands of poachers.
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Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry
Rhinoceros horn was believed to be sensitive to the presence of toxins, and was
used to counter arrow poisons, the bites of noxious snakes, and poisons of other
kinds. It was said that cups of rhinoceros horn would sweat when poison was ...
Frederick J. Simoons, 1990
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A Gāndhārī Version of the
Rhinoceros Sūtra: British Library ...
One may suspect that their choices were influenced in part by the greater felicity,
in English translation at least, of a phrase like "wander alone like the rhinoceros"
than "wander alone like the rhinoceros horn," which, in Jamison's words, ...
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Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery
the Chinese considered rhinoceros horn to be an antidote to poison, and many
still believe they can cure a wide range of illnesses, from skin diseases to heart
trouble and erectile dysfunction, despite any proof of their efficacy in any of these
...
Patricia Bjaaland Welch, 2008
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Tiger Bone & Rhino
Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for ...
After a list of all the symptoms that rhinoceros horn (xi jiao) can alleviate, there is
this note: “The rhinoceros is an endangered species. Please use water buffalo
horn as a substitute.” Chryssee and Esmond Martin observed in a 1991 book that
...
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Sex, Marriage, and Family in World Religions
Don S. Browning, Martha Christian Green, John Witte. Having torn one's fetters
asunder, like a fish breaking a net in the water, not returning, like a fire (not
goingback) towhat is (already) burned,one should wander solitary as a
rhinoceros horn.
Don S. Browning, Martha Christian Green, John Witte, 2013
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Symbols of Excellence: Precious Materials as Expressions of ...
Indeed rhinoceros horn is one of the few materials regarded as precious in the
past not to appear inherently attractive to most modern observers. When King
Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden18 turned his attention to objects made of this
material in ...
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Return of the Unicorns: Natural History and Conservation of ...
covet jambiya made from rhinoceros horn. Dagger handles may even be a much
bigger problem than traditional Chinese medicine, as the known demand is
larger and the main consuming country has not yet banned domestic trade.
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Ten Lectures on the Use of Medicinals from the Personal ...
Xijiao (rhinoceros horn)6 is cold in nature and bitter and salty in flavor. It primarily
clears construction and cools the blood, and also resolves toxin and stabilizes
fright. For warm disease with heat entering the construction aspect, which is ...
Shude Jiao, Nigel Wiseman, Andrew Ellis, 2003
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Illegal Rhino Horn Sale in Iowa Illuminates Need for Conservation …
DES MOINES, Iowa – After an Iowa taxidermist pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling two endangered black rhinoceros horns to an ivory trafficker across the ... «whotv.com, Maj 15»
Minnesota Professor Accused Of Smuggling Elephant Ivory And …
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A St. Cloud State University philosophy professor was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to smuggle rhinoceros horns and ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
Rhino horn smuggler Tony Guan from BC sentenced to 30 months in …
An antiques dealer from Richmond, B.C. who pleaded guilty to smuggling rhinoceros horns, elephant ivory and coral has been sentenced to two and a half years ... «CBC.ca, Mar 15»
Rhino horn smuggling guilty plea entered by BC man
A Canadian antiques dealer swept up in a U.S. crackdown on illegal trafficking in rhinoceros horns pleaded guilty Tuesday to a wildlife smuggling charge. «CBC.ca, Lis 14»
Leader of rhino horn smuggling ring sentenced to nearly six years in …
NEWARK — The leader of an international crime ring that traded in prized rhinoceros horns was sentenced to nearly six years in prison today, one of the ... «NJ.com, Maj 14»
Rhino Horns Put Europe's Museums on Thieves' Must-Visit List
Never mind that their target, a large rhinoceros horn, was still attached to its owner, ... Grabbing a pair of additional horns (and the rhino skull they belonged to) ... «New York Times, Sie 11»
Britain urges Asia to act over surging trade in rhinoceros horn
Britain is to ask China, Vietnam and other Asian countries to tell their citizens that rhino horn has no medicinal value, in an attempt to halt a wave of rhino ... «The Independent, Sie 11»
$1.5m Chinese cups made of rhinoceros horn show up at Antiques …
At the Roadshow's stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a man walked into the city's Convention Centre with a set of five Chinese cups carved from rhinoceros horns. «Daily Mail, Lip 11»
Elle Macpherson in hot water after admitting she uses illegal rhino …
The 47-year-old supermodel and host of "Britain's Next Top Model" told the Times of London that she eats powdered rhinoceros horn as a beauty treatment. «New York Daily News, Lip 10»
