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[Child looks inside a shark's mouth]

This photograph was taken by Tudor Washington Collins (b.1898, d.1970) in.

 

This scene depicts a man holding open the jaw of a shark with a tool, while a metal hook is piercing the side of its mouth, and a young boy is sitting on the shoreline looking inside the shark's mouth.

 

The photographic medium is gelatin dry plate negative, measuring 82 mm x 107 mm (1/4 plate), on glass. It is classified under negatives/photographs/AAT Visual Works.

 

Credit: Shared by Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tāmaki Paenga Hira, as part of the Tudor Collins collection.

Rights: No known copyright restrictions.

Reference: PH-2013-7-TC-B792-03.

 

For more details, please visit: www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/record/1049564

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Uploaded on April 14, 2025
Taken on May 23, 2014