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Bears

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW,Use For = Ursidae

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

A Bear Hunt, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/288
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of men going on a bear hunt in Keonjhar, Orissa, India in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Bear with Monkey, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2542
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an Indian man standing on a path at a farm with a bear sitting next to him on a rope lead with a small monkey on its back in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Khond Beaters, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1449
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of Khond men who act as beaters on a bear hunt in [Orissa, India] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Proverb which reads 'Bhireadh e òrnais air mhath ghamhain', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/198
Scope and Contents

Proverb which reads 'Bh[e]ireadh e òrrais air mhath ghamhain' [His conduct would make a bear squeamish] and noted as being from An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye.

Dates: 1894

The Raja of Talcher's Pet Bear, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/179
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Raja of Talcher's pet bear standing on its hind legs being held by an Indian man next to a Western woman in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s