American moose swimming

Two moose swimming in water. The moose is the largest of the American deer. Its large size; generally blackish-brown colour; long legs; high shoulders; long, pendulous, slightly inflated muzzle; and throat appendages are found in no other species. (Family: cervidae; binomial name: alces alces).

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Animal swimming
• Moose
• Moose--Behavior
• Mammals
• Moose--Habitat

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_089; Cowan_PN_626; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 4

Date created

• July 17, 1936

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 negative : black and white ; 4 x 6 cm

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Ootsa Lake

Coordinates

• 53.77972, -126.13667

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• negatives (photographs)
• black-and-white negatives
• photographs
• black-and-white photographs

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/bhmy-aw78

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.