Onager
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Asiatic Wild Ass,Created For = TD
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Exmoor Pony with Onager (Wild Ass) Hybrid Foal, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/332
Scope and Contents
Photograph of an Exmoor pony with an Onager (wild ass) hybrid foal standing next to a fence.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 01 July 1902
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/52
Scope and Contents
Hagenbeck confirms that the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris no longer has the hybrid of the 'Equus hemyonus' and pony in its possession, and that the hybrid zebras and donkeys have been sold to William Jamrach. He enquires after more complete physical details of Ewart's hybrids.
Dates:
01 July 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 30 September 1905
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/36
Scope and Contents
Hagenbeck writes that the Przewalski's stallion with a longer mane than the others is now in the Zoological Gardens, Cincinnati. He is sorry that Ewart lost his Przewalski's horse without having a foal from him, and offers to send him one of his stallions for a year. He hopes to find a customer for Ewart's hybrid Onager and will send Ewart a photograph of his Java pony, which he will have to sell. He will also try to find out where the skin of a mountain zebra can be obtained.
Dates:
30 September 1905
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Graham Renshaw, 04 July 1900
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/19
Scope and Contents
Renshaw writes that he is sending Ewart prints of two hybrids in the Jardin des Plantes in Amsterdam. He adds that he was not able to find the quagga-hemionus hybrid for him that he had hoped to photograph.
Dates:
04 July 1900
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 31 May 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/60
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway thanks Ewart for the critique of his manuscript and offers some opinions concerning the history and characteristics of the pony Tarpan redivivus and elaborates on prehistoric horses. He makes some remarks about editorial and spelling matters and discusses the sounds made by the Kiang and Onager ponies.
Dates:
31 May 1904