Nomad aesthetic: Cattle modifications among the northern Turkana of north west Kenya

Dioli, Maurizio

doi:10.1186/s13570-017-0110-4

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“…Black coat color are not preferred culturally, thereby, reducing the market price of such animals (Kubkomawa et al, 2018). Most of the cattle have horns as the trait is correlated with their beauty (Dioli, 2018;Tewelde et al, 2017). The cattle with long horns are able to defend themselves better than polled.…”

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Morphometrical Traits and Structural Indices of Malle Cattle Reared in the South Omo Zone of Southwest Ethiopia

Getaneh¹,

Banerjee²,

Taye³

2020

Res. J. Anim. Sci.

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The study was conducted to morphometrically and morphologically characterized Malle cattle using some predefined qualitative and quantitative parameters and to develop some structural indices to access their type and function. Data were collected through field observations and linear measurements of sample cattle. A total of 360 cattle of different ages of were selected randomly from different locations and morphometrical measurements were carried out on it. Qualitative traits were evaluated using non parametric tests. Quantitative traits were analysed using descriptive statistics. The observed coat color patterns of cattle were predominantly plain. Red and white colored animals predominated across both the sexes. The result of morphometrical measurements indicated that Bulls with young age group (4 year age) exert strong significant effect (p<0.01) on Heart Girth (HG), Height at Rump (HR), Height at Withers (HW), Neck Circumference (NC), Muzzle Circumference (MC) and Chest Depth (CD) while in cows with age group 4 significant effect (p<0.01) on heart girth (HG) and muzzle circumference (MC) whereas (p<0.05) Height at Withers (HW) were observed. Similarly, in age group 5 significance effect (p<0.01) on Heart Girth (HG), Neck Circumference (NC) and Chest Width (CW) whereas (p<0.05) Height at Rump (HR) and Height at Wither (HW) were also observed. The weight of the bulls and cows were best assessed using skeletal measurements viz. body length, height at withers and rump, besides chest depth and width. The findings from the structural indices also indicated that the cattle were well balanced and body length and height were more or less proportional. It was conclude that, along with other managerial improvement, the productive aptitude of the cattle through morphometry can provides relevant information to guide and enhance their productive performance.

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Morphometrical Traits and Structural Indices of Malle Cattle Reared in the South Omo Zone of Southwest Ethiopia

Getaneh¹,

Banerjee²,

Taye³

2020

Res. J. Anim. Sci.

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“…These practices were depicted in rock art in Africa, dating back to the Neolithic period. Stripe pattern is one of the common branding designs (Insoll, 2015;Dioli, 2018). This pattern branding practice suggest, that those vertical and horizontal lines on the body of the bovid motif (fig.…”

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A pair of Chinese Shang oracle graphs Niu and Yang for certain livestock originate from a pair of Halaf pottery motifs bucrania and mouflons, which spread across prehistoric Old World.

Liu

2024

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Utilizing the multiple evidence of genetics, archaeology, iconography, graphemics and philology, this paper discovers two foreign elements Niu and Yang from the Fertile Crescent, in the Shang oracle inscriptions; as well as articulates the dispersal across Europe of the Halaf culture motif pair bucrania and mouflons. These discoveries provide a clue to investigate the relations of several pictograph type writing systems of the Bronze Age Old World. The connection among the Shang graph pair Niu and Yang, the European late Neolithic and Bronze Age abstract motif bucrania, and the Halaf pottery motif pair bucrania and mouflons is disclosed by the shared contents of their meaning: taurine cattle and sheep/goats from the Fertile Crescent. The second prototype of the Halaf motif pair, the back view of the whole body is distinguished from the head view by comparing the motifs with animal images and according to their placement in the evolutionary process. Owing to the same form, the same degree of abstraction, and the same characteristic feature (a pair of huge and curved horns), the Shang graph pair falls in the clusters of those abstract variants of the Halaf motif pair. This coincides with that the Shang graph pair stay outside the category of all the other four-legged animals’ Shang oracle graphs, not only because of the different view types, but also the Shang graph pair’s more abstract form implying their more ancient times.

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“…4.1b, d), this paper determines that the vertical line within the outlines or lozenge represents the upper part of cattle tail or the whole tail of mou on, rather than a brand of stripe on coat of the animals. For details of pattern branding, refer to Insoll (2015) and Dioli (2018). Note, on Fig.…”

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A pair of Chinese Shang oracle graphs Niu and Yang for certain livestock originate from the Neolithic Fertile Crescent

Liu

2023

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Utilizing the multiple evidence of genetics, archaeology, iconography, graphemics and philology, this paper discovers two foreign elements Niu and Yang from the Fertile Crescent, in the Shang oracle inscriptions. This discovery provides a clue to investigate the relations of several pictograph type writing systems of the Bronze Age old world. The connection of the Shang graph pair Niu and Yang with the Halaf culture motif pair bucrania and mouflons is disclosed by the shared contents of their meaning: taurine cattle and sheep/goats from the Fertile Crescent. The second prototype of the Halaf motif pair, the back view of the whole body is distinguished from the head view by comparing the motifs with animal images and according to their placement in the evolution. Owing to the same forms, the same degree of abstraction, and the same diagnostic feature, a pair of huge and curved horns, the Shang graph pair falls in the clusters of those abstract variants of the Halaf motif pair, which coincide with that the Shang graph pair stay outside the category of all the other four-legged animals’ Shang oracle graphs, not only because of the different view types, but also the more abstract forms implying their more ancient times.

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Nomad aesthetic: Cattle modifications among the northern Turkana of north west Kenya

Cited by 7 publications

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Morphometrical Traits and Structural Indices of Malle Cattle Reared in the South Omo Zone of Southwest Ethiopia

Morphometrical Traits and Structural Indices of Malle Cattle Reared in the South Omo Zone of Southwest Ethiopia

A pair of Chinese Shang oracle graphs Niu and Yang for certain livestock originate from a pair of Halaf pottery motifs bucrania and mouflons, which spread across prehistoric Old World.

A pair of Chinese Shang oracle graphs Niu and Yang for certain livestock originate from the Neolithic Fertile Crescent

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