Rhodesian Ridgeback
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The Rhodesian Ridgeback is a large dog breed originally bred in Southern Africa. The original breed standard was drafted by F.R. Barnes, in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, in 1922, and approved by the So
A male Rhodesian Ridgeback
Ein Jagdhund - a Rhodesian Ridgeback by Karl Friedrich Schulz c.1834
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Khoekhoe
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Khoikhoi or Khoekhoe are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of Southern Africa. They are often grouped with the hunter-gatherer San peoples, the accepted term for the two peop
Rhodesian Ridgeback
…Zimbabwe), in 1922, and approved by the South African Kennel Union in 1927. Its forebears can be traced to the ridged hunting and guardian dogs of the Khoikhoi. These were interbred with European dogs by the early colonists of the Cape Colony for the baying of lions. The Khoikhoi people who lived in the Cape…
A Khoekhoe man
Nomadic Khoekhoe dismantling their huts, by Samuel Daniell (1805)
Adam Kok, leader of the Griqua nation
Khoekua marksmen played a key role in the Cape Frontier Wars.