Object Type: photograph

1999.92.5

Black and white photograph of the MacArthurs of Balephuil sliabh.

The MacArthurs of Balephuil sliabh (muinntir an t-sleibh). L-R: (back) Mor, Peigi, Catriona, (front) Calum and Sandy.

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1999.74.2

Cutting the ham

Photograph of a Regatta Sports Day in the 1930s.

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Courtesy of Mr Duncan MacInnes

The aim of the sport was that the participant would be blindfolded and given a knife, the ham would be swung around on a rope above them, and they would have to try to cut the rope so that the ham would fall.

Black and white photograph of Tiree regatta sports.

Cutting the ham at a Regatta Sports Day in the 1930s.