Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn by Richard Ellis

Author:Richard Ellis [Ellis, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781597269537
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2013-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

This life-sized hand organ, operated by turning a handle on the tiger’s left side, was made for Tipu Sultan in France. Air is pumped into the bellows within the tiger’s body and expelled as a shriek and a loud roar. As the tiger “kills” the British soldier, the victim’s hand moves up and down, and tunes could be played on the button keys in the tiger’s side.

In a 1999 essay entitled “The Tiger in Human Consciousness and Its Significance in Crafting Solutions for Tiger Conservation,” Peter Jackson explains the importance of tiger symbolism in many Asian countries:

At the advent of the Year of the Tiger these markings are painted on the foreheads of children to promote vigour and health. The children also wear tiger caps and tiger slippers for the occasion. In Korea, the tiger became the symbol of the Mountain Spirit, and the White Tiger the Guardian of the West. In modern times, South Korea chose the tiger as the symbol of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Malaysia has two tigers supporting its National Crest.... India, home of half the world’s surviving tigers, replaced the lion with the tiger as its national animal when conservation started in the early 1970s. In Pakistan, where no tigers are now found, the political party which fought for independence from British rule, the Muslim League, still has the tiger as its election symbol and displayed it during its victorious campaign in 1997. Bangladesh has the image of the tiger on its banknotes. Because the tiger is the symbol of power, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand have been dubbed “Asian tigers” because of their rapid economic advance.

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