Tag Archives: livestock

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Black and white photograph of an unknown man with cows from a small album from Silversands.

`Am Buachaille` (the cow-herd or shepherd) from a small album from Silversands, Vaul, titled `Idle Days` probably dating from the 1920s or early 1930s.

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2003.161.8

Black and white photograph of an unknown man with a pet lamb from a small album from Silversands.

`Da Pheata` (two pets) from a small album from Silversands, Vaul, titled `Idle Days` probably dating from the 1920s or early 1930s.

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2003.161.11

Black and white photograph of two unknown women with a pet lamb from a small album from Silversands.

`Tri pheatichean` (three pets) from a small album from Silversands, Vaul, titled `Idle Days` probably dating from the 1920s or early 1930s.

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1998.137.2

Black and white postcard of the fank at Kennavara in the 1930s.

The fank at Kennavara after sheep-dipping in the 1930s. L-R: (back) John MacGillivery`s wife; Niall Brownlie, Barrapol (Johann MacKinnon`s brother); John Brownlie (Johann and Niall`s father); D. C. MacKinnon, John MacGillivery`s half-brother; Margaret MacGillivery, John`s daughter; Hugh MacGillivery, John`s son; Marianne or Annie, John`s sister; John MacFadyen, Annabella MacNeill`s father; (front) Malcolm MacDonald, shepherd in Barrapol, Johann`s half-brother; John Wright; Donald MacLean, father of Hugh, Willie and Angus; Hugh MacKinnon (Eoghann Ban); Archie Sinclair, brother of Alasdair, A` Chachaleith Dhubh, Grianal; Willie MacNeill, from the Land who worked for the MacNivens.

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