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Thylacine pelt
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| Author |
George Serras, National Museum of Australia |
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| Title |
Thylacine pelt |
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| Description |
Tanned pelt of an adult thylacine (Tasmanian tiger). It has beige-brown fur, and the tail is missing. There is darker fur on the back with fourteen distinct darker stripes. No fur is on the ears which are orange brown. In the National Historical Collection of the National Museum of Australia. |
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| Date | 1930 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Length 1410mm; width 920mm; height 110mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1999.0016.0001 |
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| Object history | The European settlement of Australia was marked by a wave of extinctions of native species. The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, is one of the best examples of this process and in the popular and scientific imagination this animal has become emblematic of historical extinctions. The Wilson thylacine skin was caught by Mr Charles Selby Wilson in 1930 in the Pieman River area of north western Tasmania where Wilson worked as a surveyor. It therefore represents one of the last of the wild thylacines. The Pieman River area is central to the history of the thylacine. The earliest of the thylacine bounty systems was initiated by the Van Diemen’s Land Company in nearby Surrey Hills in 1836. When the Tasmanian Advisory Committee for Native Fauna recommended in 1928 that the thylacine be protected, it was the area between the Arthur and Pieman rivers that was recommended as a potential reserve for thylacines. The last authenticated capture of a wild thylacine was in September 1930 at Mawbanna - also in north west Tasmania. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | When using this image, please credit the photographer and the National Museum of Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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