Tiger Lily (Peter Pan) Tiger Lily (Peter Pan) Tiger Lily is a fictional character in J. M. Barrie's play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up", his novel based on it, and the various adaptations of them. She is the princess of the ""Piccaninny"-tribe" (Native Americans) living on the island of Neverland. She is apparently old enough to be married, but she refuses any suitors because she desires Peter Pan overall. She is jealous of Wendy and Tinker Bell. Tiger Lily is nearly killed by Captain Hook when she is seen boarding the "Jolly Roger" with a knife in her mouth, but
Peter Pan production in 1927, where Jean Forbes-Robertson took the title role, and played the part with a lighter, more fairy-like, physicality. Robertson was to play the part almost every year until 1939. The character's name comes from two sources: Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the five Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired the story, and Pan, a minor deity of Greek mythology who plays pipes to nymphs and is part human and part goat. This is referenced in Barrie's works (particularly "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens") where Peter Pan plays pipes to the fairies and rides a goat. The god Pan represents