Out of focus image of a man with a 21-foot long minke whale body. The skull is housed at Royal British Columbia Museum.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Contributor

• Martin, Patrick W.
• Lyons, Allan

Subject

• Whales
• Beaches
• Zoological specimens
• Animal carcasses
• Whales--Stranding
• Minke whale

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_123; Cowan_PN_697-698; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 5

Date created

• June 1940

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 negative : black and white ; 5.5 x 8.5 cm

Alternative title

• Davidson's whale
• Common minke whale
• Sharp-nosed finner
• Pike whale

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Hardy Bay

Coordinates

• 50.73559, -127.47445

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/10.58066/1n40-sn98

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