Unidentified Sailor Holding a Shark
ID: SIA2013-08822
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1930
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 231, Folder: Parish Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti, 1930. Photographs
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A sailor from the ship "Esperanza" holds a shark's pectoral fin. The shark is suspended in the air by a rope. The shark was caught off the cost of Cuba in 1930 by members of the Parish-Smithsonian Expedition, of which Perrygo was a part. The caption on the back of the image reads: "One of the sailors and a shark, Port Tanamo, Cuba."
Subject
Parish-Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti 1930
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- The Parish-Smithsonian Expedition was an expedition sponsored by Lee Hamilton Parish and his parents, Samuel W. and Ella Parish. The goal of the expedition was to collect natural history specimens, mostly along the coastal region of Haiti. Smithsonian taxidermist Watson Perrygo was a member of the expedition and sailed to Haiti with the Parishes on their yacht, the "Esperanza." During the expedition, the "Esperanza" had to make an unplanned stop in Cuba after a storm wrecked her mast. Perrygo also collected bird specimens in Cuba while the yacht was being repaired. In Haiti, the expedition team collected birds and other natural history specimens and collected live reptiles for the National Zoological Park.
- A duplicate photographic print can be found in Record Unit 7306, Box 2, Folder: 23.
- The geographic map's latitude and longitude are estimate of the location of where this image was taken. There is no known exact latitude and longitude for this image.
- For additional photos from the Parish-Smithsonian Expedition, see Negative Numbers 83-9644, 84-8051, 84-8054, SIA2013-08819, SIA2013-08820, SIA2013-0821, SIA2013-08823, SIA2013-08824.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 231, Folder: Parish Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti, 1930. Photographs
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1930
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Scientific expeditions
- Animals
- Fishes
- Sharks
- Fishing
- Cuba-Fishes, Fishes, Fishes-Cuba
Place
- Cuba
- Holguin Province
- Sagua de Tanamo
- Bahia de Sagua de Tanamo
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Animal, candid
ID Number
SIA2013-08822
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 3.25w x 4.25h; Type of Image: Animal, Candid; Person, Candid; Medium: Photographic print