Tiger Tot Is Toast of the Town

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Object Details

Author

Cohen, Jessie

Subject

National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Ragunan Zoological Garden

Notes

Featured in Torch, September 1993

Summary

One of a pair of tiger cubs, with a playful appearance, lies on a quilt in its den at the National Zoological Park. The cubs were born on June 14, 1993, to Kerinci, a rare Sumatran tiger who came to the Zoo in July 1989 as part of an exchange with the Jakarta (Ragunan Zoological Garden) Zoo in Indonesia.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: September 1993

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1993

Standard number

SIA2010-0381 and 24-tig-30 #6

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Animal, candid

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 9.5w x 7.5h; Type of Image: Animal, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Place

Sumatra (Indonesia)

Indonesia

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Animals

Births

Tiger Cub

Tigers

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_7089