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Date: 1953

Technique: Photograph

Potatoes being dug out of the ground in Peninerine with a cròcan (iron hook). This would also be used for working with seaware. The photograph was taken by Werner Kissling (1895-1988), an ethnological photographer, who worked mainly in island and coastal communities in Scotland. He made one of the earliest Gaelic films, Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives (1935). University of Edinburgh, School of Scottish Studies Archives: SSSA F18/14

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