Tantanoola Tiger |
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| Title : | Tantanoola Tiger |
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| Creator : | Heather Williamson | ||
| Place Of Creation : | WA | ||
| Date of creation : | 1895 | ||
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| Description : |
In 1895 two men decided to both shoot the Tantanoola tiger - one being a man called Donavon and Daniel Skipworth- and the community had offered a shotgun or the stuffed tiger. Donavan took the tiger and it was placed in the hotel -Skipworth the shotgun which is still licensed and belongs to the Skipworth family. |
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| Place : | South Australia |
| Region : | South East |
| Further reading : | Bonney, Neville. The Tantanoola Tiger, Blackwood, SA: Lynton Publications, 1976 'The Tantanoola Tiger: shot by Mr. T. Donovan: Declared to be a wolf',The Border Watch, 24 August 1895, p. 2 |
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