That is indeed the legendary White Hunter Richard John Cuninghame.
The elephant was shot by the lady in the picture, Delia "Mickie" Akeley, wife of the equally legendary Naturalist and father of modern taxidermy Carl Akeley. The hunt was in the forests around Mount Kenya, in 1906. The amazingly well-matched tusks were both 8 feet 10 inches in length, and 19 & 1/2 inches in circumference, the left-hand tusk weighed 112 pounds, and right-hand tusk weighed 115 pounds.
A few days earlier, Mickie shot her first elephant, a bull with tusks of 94 & 1/2, and 91 & 1/2 pounds. In one week, she exceeded all other claims for the largest elephant shot so far by a woman, AND the heaviest on record PAIR of elephants taken on a sportsman's license in British East Africa, by man or woman.
The Akeleys, with Cuninghame's guidance were collecting specimens for the Field Museum in Chicago.
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