Hooper, W.W.

TITLE ON OBJECT: Tiger Hunting - No. 5. Buffalo Killed by Tiger. (Kites, vulture and crow, feeding on carcass)
ALBUM TITLE: "Indian Photographs"

ca. 1872
albumen print
18.6 x 23.9 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 30830
79:0032:0072

OLD GEH NUMBER: 1297
NON-GEH NUMBER: No. 5

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 182.//

INSCRIPTION: page recto-(in pencil) "Tiger Hunting - No. 5 Buffaloe [sic] Killed by Tiger. (Kites, vulture and crow, feeding in carcase [sic].)"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/98, DZ. Maker identification based on information provided by Roger Taylor, 6/23/98 in phone call to David Wooters. Album exists in England with same photograph with Hooper's name in image.

SUBJECTS:
animal, dead
animal, birds