A Group of Rhesus Macaque Monkeys

Title: A Group of Rhesus Macaque Monkeys
Identifier: RCS_010
Alternative Identifier: pic204
Description: A group of M. m. lasiota, the west Chinese rhesus macaque, found in western Sichuan and northern Yunnan, sitting among a stand of bamboo.
Commentary: This subspecies of rhesus macaques has very long fur compared to other rhesus macaques. Floyd Tangier Smith and Daniel S. Dye were among those affiliated with WCUU who trapped monkeys for transport to Western zoos. It is possible these monkeys are ones that Daniel S. Dye had in captivity at WCUU to ship to American zoos.
Creator: Roy or Kathleen Spooner
Date Created: c. 1938
Source: David Spooner
Provenance: Roy Cowieson and Kathleen Spooner, David Spooner (Roy's and Kathleen's son). Scanned by Zhang Mingying.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-01-02
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Zhang Mingying
Type: Still Image
References: (Re Dan Dye's monkeys): Shulman, Deborah. 2008. Prisms of China: Canadian Women Missionaries in China, 1904-1945. Doctoral Dissertation, Concordia University, Department of History, p. 315.