Displaying Wild Furs - 1

Item

Title
Displaying Wild Furs - 1 See all items with this value
Caption
Buying Wild Furs See all items with this value
Identifier
WFA_151
Alternative Identifier
p. 79
Description
A rare animal trapper has spread out his catch on the lawn of a missionary household on the WCUU campus (probably the Grahams'). Dryden Phelps (left) holds one side of a giant panda skin, while the trapper holds the other. Constance Walmsley holds a Tibetan antelope skin. A young girl (possibly Enid Walmsley) holds what looks like the skeleton of a young gharial. On the ground there are several rare takin skins with skulls. There are two bicycles at the porch in the background. Probably one of them is Dryden's since he has his pants strapped for bike riding. See all items with this value
Commentary
Indigenous hunters in the mountains west of Chengdu had begun selling furs during the 1930s inspired by both foreign hunting expeditions and poverty brought about by warfare, banditry, droughts and floods. By 1939, the Sichuan government had begun to regulate the slaughter of wild animals. Today, many of these species are endangered. Place and date are determined in comparison with "Graham Daughters with Snow-Covered Pavilion." See all items with this value
Date Created
1938
Location
Chengdu, Sichuan See all items with this value
Geonames
https://www.geonames.org/1815286/chengdu.html
Original Format
Photographic Print
Relation
Displaying Wild Furs - 2
Graham Daughters with Snow-Covered Pavilion
Is Part Of
Richard Curtis Willmott Black Photo Album
Source
Jill Willmott
Provenance
Passed down from K & E Willmott to Richard Curtis Willmott, and then donated to Mount Royal University - Archives and Special Collections. Digitized by Elizabeth Willmott. See all items with this value
https://library.mtroyal.ca/archives See all items with this value
Access Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher
SIUE
Record Date
2026-02-17
Contributor
Cory Willmott
Type
Still Image
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_takin
Published In
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharial
Subject
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_antelope; https://id.worldcat.org/fast/942479
Media
WFC_151_p79 buying wild furs.jpg

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Resource class
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