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Potato digging

Werner Kissling1953

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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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  • Title: Potato digging
  • Creator: Werner Kissling
  • Date Created: 1953
  • Location Created: South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland
  • Rights: Courtesy of David Lockwood
  • Medium: Photograph (Negative)
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