Transporting sheep from Flannan Isles to Bernera

Donald Macaulay (Dòmhnall Sgàire) and Kenneth MacDonald (Coinneach Dochart) transporting sheep by boat from the (uninhabited) Flannan Isles. Sheep belonging to the people of Bernera were taken there for the summer grazing.

The photograph was taken by James MacGeoch (1914-1970) who worked in the photographic section of the police and spent many summers in Lewis.

University of Edinburgh, School of Scottish Studies Archives: SSSA BIV 3 b6 3944