Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History · leaf 69
d to Shang Period,showing Pictorial Form ofSacrificial Bull (from Po kutu lu). 1 Quotation from Shi king (see Legge, Chinese Classics, Vol. IV, p. 233). Therhinoceros-horn goblets are discussed below, p. 167. 2 Another cruder and more conventionalized symbol of the rhinoceros se, in which,however,… … animal is well grasped in the Chinese sketch, and the shape ofthe horn is correctly outlined. For the sake of comparison, and inorder to show that the primitive Chinese man knew very well how todiscriminate between a rhinoceros and an ox, the contemporaneoussymbol for the sacrificial bull (hi niu),…
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