Displaying Wild Furs - 1
Item
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Title
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Displaying Wild Furs - 1
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Caption
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Buying Wild Furs
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Identifier
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WFA_151
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Alternative Identifier
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p. 79
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Description
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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.
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Commentary
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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."
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Date Created
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1938
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Location
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Chengdu, Sichuan
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Original Format
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Photographic Print
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Source
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Jill Willmott
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Provenance
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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.
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https://library.mtroyal.ca/archives
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Publisher
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SIUE
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Record Date
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2026-02-17
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Contributor
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Cory Willmott
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Type
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Still Image
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Published In
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharial
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Subject
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_antelope; https://id.worldcat.org/fast/942479
Richard Curtis Willmott Black Photo Album
Displaying Wild Furs - 2