Tippoo’s Tiger is on exhibt at the Victoria & Albert Museum. According to the exhibit label:
Tipi Sultan was killed when the East India Company army stormed Seringapatam in 1799.... The wooden tiger with an organi inside its body was discovered in the palace’s music room and shipped to Londan. As ‘Tippoo’s Tiger’ it became one of the popular exhibits in the Company’s new museum. When vistors turned the handle at the side, noises were produced that supposedly imitated the European victim’s dying wails of agony. The tiger came to South Kensington when the Indian Museum’s collection was split up in 1879.
It was 3D scanned with a Structure scanner attached to an iPad Mini 4. The scan itself is not of high resolution so in this case the scanner was used to create what amounts to a 3D photograph. Because the device is in an exhibt case, the right side was not fully scanned.
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