Photograph of Peter "Phatch" Faherty putting holes in cow hide to make pampooties.
Description
Photograph of Peter ?Phatch? Faherty sitting on the ground putting holes in cow hide to make pampooties, Inishmore, Aran Islands. He wears an Aran sweater, a hat with a bobble, trousers and thick socks with pampooties. He hold a tool in his right hand and presses the leather to it with his left. He works on a wooden board which he sits on. In the left midground are some bare scrub plants on the skyline. The ground is flat and stoney. It meets the sky in the midgroundon the right.