Tiger Tot Is Toast of the Town
Object Details
- Author
- Cohen, Jessie
- Subject
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Ragunan Zoological Garden
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- 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
- 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
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Animals
- Births
- Tiger Cub
- Tigers
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7089
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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