Another non- Arab or at least geographically North African portrait, from the Louvre, courtesy of Daniela. The given title as I got it was “”Un Chien de Barbarie”, but given the obvious I have changed the sex in the title! Daniela called the portrait “a little ‘Taik”– see below (top, most recent, by GG)…
Tag: Dogs
Queen Victoria’s Hound?
Terence Clark sent a fine Landseer portrait from the 19th century of what appears to be a female saluki– or, better, tazi; actually to my eye the dog seems eastern, Asian, even specifically “Turkmeni”. She is doing the rarely portrayed “propitiating” smile and but for color resembles Ataika I think. Terence said, quoting the Country …
BEST Coursing photos
Herb Wells of Alpaugh CA, for all California’s problems still the field HQ of coursing, is perhaps the best photographer of running dogs EVER. A small sampler.The second reminds me of an old coursing print.
Separated at Birth?
I finally figured out who the Roman- nosed Chinese “Xigou” hounds reminded me of: the late Edward Gorey’s Doubtful Guest. Look at those profiles!
Mongol Tazis?
I never saw a tazi in Mongolia but there is evidence they exist, as in this folk painting. It is a common genre but this is the only one I ever saw that had tazis, never mind a Kazakh eagler.Andrew brought me back this wonderful little study in another modern style– I have a horse …
Xigou
Sir Terence Clark has just returned from China. He writes: “I was in Shaanxi Province of China in October 2010 with the Xigou (pronounced See-gow) hunters, one of whom had previously asked me whether I thought his hound was a Saluki. After examining a whole range of these hounds, I can only say that superficially …
The Fragrance of Grass
Guy de la Valdene’s new memoir The Fragrance of Grass (title from a line in a Jim Harrison poem) is out, and it is wonderful, even better than his earlier good books I think. It is an unusual combination of almost Proustian (but rural) memoir and sporting reminiscence, perhaps with echoes of Turgenev’s “notebooks” as …
Tree Dogs # 2
I have TONS of content overdue– bear with me, I’ll begin tomorrow. Meanwhile here are more of Teddy’s amazing tree dachsies, this time in hot pursuit of a feral cat…
Tree Dogs!
Meanwhile Teddy Moritz’s dogs are climbing tall trees in pursuit of squirrels with their avian partners– that is a dachshund up there, not a Harris hawk! And she tells me he had gotten all the way to the end and was returning…
Quote of the Day
“I call it dogwatching, just like birdwatching for some. We all are dogwatchers, no matter, hunting, or not.” (Vladimir Beregovoy, emeritus dogwatcher, in our Asia Group)