Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History · leaf 106
bit any of the properties of rhinoceros-horn. The latter is indeed a unique product History of the Rhinoceros 169 The Chou li has a report on the office of the horn-collectors {kiojen) whose task it was to collect teeth, horns, and bones in mountainsand marshy places.1 Cheng Kang-cheng of the… … Fig. 24.Bronze Rhyton attributed to Chou Period (from Kin shi so). used also in the sense of a vessel carved from horn; and there areseveral types of ancient bronze vessels, the names of which are writtenwith characters combined with the classifier kio (horn). Thiswould hardly be the case if these…
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