Carcass Collection

Beef Carcasees
Butchers removing intestines from cattle carcasses, part of the Argentinian meat (beef) production process. Date: 1930s

Ancient settlement of the Ice Age, Kazakhstan area
Ancient village settlement of the Ice Age or Stone Age, with a woman butchering a deer carcass, a man carving a stone, and people collecting firewood. 8700-2000 BCE

The Princess and the Tiger
Princess Manorama Raja, daughter of the Maharaja of Indore, with the body of a tiger she has killed. Date: circa 1925

Three natives tying a gazelle carcass for transportation
This scene is from a journey across the Sahara taken by Lt D.R.G. Cameron of the Royal Scots. The caption says that the gazelle was a Dama's Gazelle a new subspecies discovered during

Calliphora, bluebottle
A bluebottle laying eggs on carrion

ABBETOIR CARCASS
A dead animal carcass hanging in an abbetoir. Date: 1930s

The Etruscan god Faunus (Pan in Roman mythology). From a fragment of an ancient sculpture. Fauno Dio Etrusco. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Francois Le Vaillants camp at Poort after a great elephant hunt, South Africa. Among the huts, wagons and tents, a huge fire roasts elephant meat

Meat porter working at Les Halles, Paris, France
Meat porter working at the market, Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Scene in the meat market at Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Butchers in street, Dublin
Two butchers carry lamb carcasses on their shoulders down a market street in Dublin, Ireland Date: 1990

Man with sheep carcass, Kashmir
A young muslim man carrying the carcass of a sheep on his shoulders through a street in Srinagar, Kashmir. He looks straight at the camera and does not smile Date: 1986

Female Butcher
A woman butcher gutting an animal carcass. Date: early 1930s

Graham and Withers butchers shop, Bromley, Kent
Arthur Graham and Albert William Withers, butchers shop, 80 College Road, Bromley, Kent -- an amazing array of meat and poultry, with shop owners and assistants standing ready to serve

Smithfield Meat Market
Overview of Smithfield Meat Market, London, showing a brisk trade for the meat carcasses hanging from hooks. Date: 1903

Meat market, Ghardaia
Customers and merchants exchange money and goods at the meat market in Ghardaia. Animal carcasses line the walls and a young merchant boy looks straight into the lens of the camera. Date: circa 1910s

Les Halles market, Paris, France
Men at work in Les Halles, the fresh meat market in the centre of Paris, not long before it was closed and demolished to make way for a modern shopping mall. Date: circa 1971

Arctic Fox feeds on carrion of a Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida Sc) near a fishermen hunters hut (Alopex lagopus). Kara sea shore, tundra of Taimyr peninsula, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic, winter

Embalmed whale on tour in England, 1931
A 45 foot whale, the largest ever seen in England, which weighs more than 20 tons, is on a tour of England. It was caught off the coast of Norway and embalmed by Mr

Beached whales alive in a Cornish village, 1932
The people of Perranporth, a village not far from Newquay, Cornwall, have just had the surprise of their lives. Eight whales have been found on the beach washed up during a gale

Loxodonta africana, African elephant carcass
African elephant viscera, approximately 3-4 days after death, showing abundance of blowfly larvae feeding on the dead tissues. Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambezi Valley, Zambia

Physeter catodon, sperm whale
A 52 ft male sperm whale stranded at Atwick, Humberside in Dec 1993. Teeth removed for sectioning determined the animals age at 35 yrs. Whale stranding programme -nhm.ac.uk/zoology/stranding/

Sperm whale excavation, Natural History Museum, 1938
This sperm whale skull and skeleton arrived in February 1937 from Bridlington, Humberside. Published in Life Through A Lens

Working on whale carcass, 1930s
Since 1913, when the Crowns rights to whales and dolphins stranded or caught in English waters (Fishes Royal) were transferred to the Museum, staff have been monitoring cetacean strandings

Drawing seal blood - Greenland
Women from Greenland drawing blood from the carcasses of hunted seals. Date: circa 1910

Beef cuts, 1857
Town and country methods of cutting up an ox. The head and hooves ar shown, as well as the carcass. Date: 1857

Decomposing whale carcass
The decomposing body of a Sei whale, washed ashore on the beach at Suez on 3 January 1950 following a storm, surrounded by intrigiued onlookers

Emperor Meneliks Bodyguard - seemingly at some form of exhibition/Intenrational show in Germany as the kitchen sign is in German. Date: 1907

Marabou Storks surround a Zebra carcass
Marabou storks fighting over a Zebra carcass. This large and powerful bird eats mainly carrion, scraps and faeces, but will also take fish, frogs, insects, eggs, small mammals and reptiles

Manchester Ship Canal - Butchered carcases awaiting distribu
A warehouse alongside the Manchester Ship Canal with rank upon rank of hanging beef caracasses awaiting transportation by train to London

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