SOCIAL SCIENTIST resemblance and close kinship ties with their marauding kinsmen in Australia, was being celebrated in the US. Since then Trucanini has survived in ethnology albums, anthropological texts, movies, museums, and exhibitions. Her photograph, of a woman with graying hair and intensely sad eyes, stares at us - and it stares back from a hundred books. Once she was captured physically, pulled most likely by a rope slung around her neck; now she remains caged by the camera, and she will never be free of that festering captivity. She has been "salvaged", and she exists as a troubled category of knowledge - as part of the fossil record of "humanity", among the plans that the Nazis hatched, let us recall, was one which allowed for the preservation of Jewish identity after the Final Solution had been achieved. A museum would be built to chronicle the history of the Jewish race. Killings should never come in the way of good science. One suspects that photography hastened the death of the Tasmanian Aboriginals, as well as that of countless others among those who came under colonial rule. Unaware of how they were to deal with the indigenous peoples, unless it was to subject them to the sentence of death, the Europeans had no difficulties in assigning them places in museums. Here and there a race or tribe could be wiped out, but the European fetishism for classification, categorization, museumization, and ossification was viewed as furnishing more than adequate compensation to the natives who fell victims to the colonizers' hunting instinct. Indeed, the hunting of "savages" was considered on a par with the shooting of animals; certainly both "savages" and "animals" belonged in a Natural History Museum, illustrations of the evolving and colourful story of evolution. As James Ryan details in Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire, the famous big-game hunter Major Chauncey Hugh Stigand, in his book Scouting and REconnaissance in Savage Countries (1907), furnished instructions on "tracking", "stalking", and "marking down" of animals and African "savages"; a later work on elephant hunting devoted an entire chapter to "Stalking the African". Where Oriental potentates and senior colonial administrators proudly displayed tiger, leopard, and stag skins, the less powerful and affluent had to make do with more modest momentoes of their catch; photographs. Though photographs could be widely disseminated, unlike the real trophies they did not provide incontrovertible proof of masculine prowess: it was possible, after all, to have oneself photographed next to a dead tiger, and pretend that one had been the heroic agent of that death. Yet, over time, as