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From: "Monissa Whiteley" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] JOHN TALBOT BARKER. JOHN BARKER. Family History.
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:48:08 +1100
In-Reply-To: <15.24559beb.2d7ca749@aol.com>


Let me beating email program into submission and try again.

On 7 Mar 2004 at 11:26, wrote:

> My mother has a recollection of a photograph taken in
> Tasmania of the last Tasmanian Devil shot, (man with gun standing over
> shot animal) . Mum says the man in the photo is the image of her Dad
> and looked like her brother at the same age. Scant evidence to go on,
> but possibly someone knows of this photo and can point me in the right
> direction.

Tiger would be the animal in questio :) Devils there are many of.

You might be out of luck though. There's a collection of photos at

http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/Thylacine/TigerPics.html
and
http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/moretopics/persecution_2.htm

The only other ones I can recall, other than a family group standing around a skin/body,
were taken in zoos.

The second link above has the photo of the last known tiger shot, by Wilf Batty. I'd say,
family stories being the way they are, that a photo of someone who has just shot a tiger
has become something more. Although there's obviously a limited number of
hunter/tiger photos in existence. I don't suppose your mother has any idea who has it
now?


Monissa

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