People measuring exhalation of Skana, a killer whale (orca). Skana was a female killer whale and captured on February 15, 1967 off Yukon Harbor. She was sent to Seattle Marine Aquarium where she was given basic training and sold to Vancouver Aquarium. She died on October 5, 1980.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Vancouver Aquarium
• Captive marine animals
• Famous animals
• Vancouver Public Aquarium
• Whales
• Marine biology
• Skana (Whale)
• Killer whale

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_169; Cowan_PN_760; Cowan Colour Slides - Locations - Box 7

Date created

• June 1968

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 slide : colour

Alternative title

• Measuring exhalation of "Skana"

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Vancouver

Coordinates

• 49.24966, -123.11934

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
• color photographs
• slides (photographs)
• color slides

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/10.58066/0p1n-b051

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