Tiger Hunting in Lampung, 1939
The photograph above shows 2 dead tigers on top of a car, and crowd watching. The photograph was taken in Lampung in 1939, 3 years before Japanese Empire invaded Dutch East Indies, nowadays Indonesia. The picture is a proof that tiger hunting practice has been around since a long time ago. Panthera tigris sumatrae is a tiger species that lives in Sumatera jungle, and now under threat of extinction because its habitat being invaded by human.
According to historian, tiger hunting actually is not originating from Asia since Asian think they are descendants of tiger. Western colonialism brought this to Asia, introduced by British colonialism in India and British interregnum in Indonesia. Dutch themselves didn't bring the practice to Indonesia, British did when they ruled the archipelago in 1800. British even made bounty for tigers, yet most of people still refused to hunt them.
Now government has made tiger hunting illegal, but land clearing by human to build road and plantation only making live of tigers even worse.
The photograph above has been edited and colorized so you can enjoy it. Below is the original photograp in black and white.
Photograph: Het Leven
Wow so tiger hunting really happened? Am so amazed. The hunting of wild life should come to an end because all the wild life we are killing are getting extinction. Thanks for having the photo it's color and for enlighten me about tiger hunting. This is a real great post
Photo of a very memorable moment ... Good post my friend upvoted 100% From me
Hunting a tiger!! That's so much courage
Diburu atau tidak diburu, mahluk cantik ini tetap terancam punah :(
This photo is hong photo.So I like this.
This beautiful, I really don't know how to place this, but really i have never seen such a colorful photograph all my life in this forms, this is absolutely boom, excellent is just greatness, you are on the high boss...
Sad to see such beautiful creatures being hurt. Hopefully changes come soon.
Perburuan itu adalah sifat lumrah manusia, kalau hari ini ada yang berteriak selamatkan harimau sumatra, sebenarnya bukanlah hendak berteriak mari selamatkan dengan jangan berburu, tapi perbaiki mental agar tidak berburu. Karena jangan harimau sumtra, yang lain juga akan punah kalau mental berburu dan popularitas tidak diperbaiki. Maaf komen panjang om @fotosedjarah. Have a nice day
a remarkable history, in 1939, but there have been photographs and immortals to this day, which are really great.
Dari dulu sampe sekarang perburuan masih tetep ada aja