BASENJI  AFRICA DOG

 

information worth knowing  about Basenjis

                 

 

Africa  Expeditions

 

AFRICA RESEARCHERS BROUGHT THE FIRST REPORT ABOUT BASENJIS TO EUROPE

 

1798 Participants of Napoleon’s  military expedition to Egypt were researchers too. Under other things the first Drawings from Basenji like dogs were produced.

 

Basenji Type dog in Egypt

 

   

Tafel XVI-XVII  Bilderwelten und Weltbilder der Pharaonen                   Philipp von Zabern Vlg.

 

 

 

 

1799 the "stone" of Rosetta was discovered. Its multilingual character made it possible to translate hieroglyphics.

 

British Museum London  Stone of Rosetta

 

 

 

 

1822 Jean Francois Champillon and Thomas Young deciphered Hieroglyphs. Now it became possible to decode the documents of the  pharaohs age .

 

 

Hieroglyphs of a  Pharaoh and Hieroglyphs Alphabet

 

    

Hieroglyphen Vlg. Battenberg

 

 

 

Discovery of the Basenjis

 

In charge of an archeological expedition to Egypt 1828/29  was Prof. Niccola Ippolito Niccola Rosselini of the University in Pisa. Among others, drawings of Jackals, Basenji Type Dogs and other unspecified dog breeds were produced. These drawings may be of something interest for basenji owners.

 

 

Drawings from dogs in Egypt

 

Basenjis in Egypt?                       Bilderwelten und Weltbilder der Pharaonen  Ph.von Zabern Vlg.

 

 

1868/71 the explorer Georg Schweinfurth discovered dogs in Africa Basenji homeland  what seemed remarkable to him. He described them as hunting dogs. At the end of his travels, he also succeeded in solving an ages old ethnological problem by discovering the Akka  pygmies . He was the first to bring, as a believable witness, knowledge of pygmies in Europe.

 

 

1882 Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston found similar dogs that never barked in an expedition from the mouth of the Congo to Bolobo which he described as the Basenji as we know it.

 

 

Africa Expeditions to the basenjis

Import and  Breeding start

 

 

Earlier expeditions had not been very successful, because the imported Basenjis had a lot of survival problems in quarantine. Expeditions in 1959 from England and 1987/88 from the U.S.A. were sent out to improve the gene pool. There is a detailed report from the expeditions in 1987/88 Africa Stock Project basenji.org/african/project.htm   From the 1959 expedition, Miss. Veronica Tudor-Williams imported the worldwide famous Fula of the Congo. Fula became the most successful breeding female. In the book, Fula Basenji from the Jungle, Miss Veronica Tudor-Williams describes  her story.

 

FULA world famous  Basenji female

 

 

 

In 1986, an expedition took place to the  pygmies  at the Congo River. In the book I found pictures of Basenjis. But the Basenjis had not been the reason why.

 

 

W. Uhl  wolfgang-uhl.com/deutsch/personality.html 

Expedition zu den Pygmäen am Kongo  Vlg. Pietsch