Hoary marmot (1930) : Banff

A marmot walking out of a crack between two rocks. The hoary marmot inhabits the mountains of northwest North America and lives near the tree line on slopes with grasses and forbs (herbacious flowering plants) to eat and rocky areas for cover. (Family: sciuridae; binomial name: marmota caligata).

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• Laing, Hamilton M. (Hamilton Mack), 1883-1982

Contributor

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Mammals
• Animals--Habitations
• Mammals--Ecology
• Marmots
• Hoary marmot

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_086; Cowan_PN_621; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 4

Date created

• 1930

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 photograph : black and white ; 9 x 11.5 cm

Geographic coverage

• Alberta--Banff

Coordinates

• 51.17622, -115.56982

Additional physical characteristics

• Handwritten on back: Hoary Marmot, Banff, photo by H.M.Laing 1930.

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

• photographs
• black-and-white 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/dh2v-tm32

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