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An early representation of a gorilla from fifteenth-century Central Asia
Primates ( IF 1.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 , DOI: 10.1007/s10329-021-00906-w
Cecilia Veracini 1
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The present work describes the earliest known image of a gorilla (Gorilla sp.) to appear outside Africa. This is found in an Asian miniature painted on silk from the second half of the fifteenth century, called Four captive demons. The inspirational source of this painting is obscure and the artist unknown, but it may have been created in the Timurid—Turkmen region of Central Asia. A commercial network linking the African Great Lakes region—where the eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) still occurs—and the Swahili ports could have served to facilitate trade in fauna at that time in history. Countless African animals were sent by Egyptian and Eastern African rulers to their counterparts in Central Asia as diplomatic gifts, and a captive gorilla specimen could have been kept in one of the “gardens” of the Timurid—Turkmen rulers and portrayed by an artist working at their courts. This image is intriguing and worthy of attention because it opens up new scenarios regarding the extent of knowledge of Great Apes prior to the Age of Discovery, giving potentially important new insights into human-anthropoid interaction.



中文翻译:

来自 15 世纪中亚的大猩猩的早期表现

目前的工作描述了已知最早出现在非洲以外的大猩猩 ( Gorilla sp.) 的图像。这是在十五世纪下半叶画在丝绸上的亚洲微型模型中发现的,称为四个俘虏恶魔。这幅画的灵感来源不详,艺术家不详,但它可能创作于中亚的帖木儿—土库曼地区。连接非洲大湖区的商业网络——东部大猩猩 ( Gorilla beringei)) 仍然存在——而且斯瓦希里语港口本可以促进历史上那个时期的动物贸易。无数的非洲动物被埃及和东非的统治者作为外交礼物送给了中亚的同行,一只圈养的大猩猩标本本可以保存在帖木儿——土库曼统治者的“花园”之一,并由一位在那里工作的艺术家描绘他们的法庭。这张图片很有趣,值得关注,因为它开辟了关于大发现时代之前类人猿知识范围的新场景,为人类与类人猿的互动提供了潜在的重要新见解。

更新日期:2021-04-11
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