The Champawat Tiger (2026)
24" x 56" Mixed Media
The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon division of India, during the last years of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century. She was shot and killed on 12 May 1907 by the 31-year-old Jim Corbett after a hunt involving a beat with 298 men.
A postmortem on the tigress discovered that the upper and lower canine teeth on the right side of her mouth were broken, the upper one in half, the lower one right down to the bone. This injury, a result of an old gunshot, according to Corbett, probably prevented her from hunting her natural prey, and hence, she started to hunt humans.
