IMAGE
On his back with his jaw in the first biting position" - Illustration from The cruise of the Cachalot; round the world after sperm whales by Frank T Bullen
- Date
- 1898
- By
- Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1857-1915
- Reference
- MNZ-0004-1/4-F
- Description
Photograph of an illustration titled "On his Back with his Jaw in the First Biting Position" from `The cruise of the Cachalot: round the world after sperm whales' by Frank T Bullen (London: Smith, Elder, 1898). Shows a group of whalers in a whaling boat, rowing away from the sharp-toothed jaw of a sperm whale; illustrator's name illegible.
Published in `Making New Zealand' (1939) with the caption: `This illustration from Bullen, "On his Back with his Jaw in the First Biting Position," shows that the sperm whale indeed had a "mouth that could bite."'
Copy taken by an unidentified photographer.
Publication note - Department of Internal Affairs. 1939. `Making New Zealand' 1(4): 5
Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
Provenance: Photograph from the Alexander Turnbull Library for the Department of Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
- Format
- 1 b&w copy negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1857-1915. On his back with his jaw in the first biting position" - Illustration from The cruise of the Cachalot; round the world after sperm whales by Frank T Bullen. Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection. Ref: MNZ-0004-1/4-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22298737More information can be found in our terms of use.