Paw of an adult male grizzly bear which measured: total length 73 inches; tail 6 3/4 inches; hind foot 10 inches; and weight 450 pounds. The grizzly bear, less commonly known as the silvertip bear, is a large subspecies of brown bear inhabiting North America. (Family: ursidae; binomial name: ursus arctos)

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Animal carcasses
• Mammals
• Zoological specimens
• Foot
• Claws
• Bears
• Grizzly bear

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_012; Cowan_PN_554; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 2

Date created

• 1946

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 negative : black and white ; 4 x 6 cm

Alternative title

• Grizzly bear forepaw
• Ursus arctos horribilis

Geographic Coverage

• Alberta--Maligne Lake

Coordinates

• 52.66118, -117.53157

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• negatives (photographs)
• black-and-white negatives
• photographs

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/tq3n-e009

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