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Photograph of a woman drying pieces of hide for making pampooties.
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Collection Ritchie Pickow
Title Photograph of a woman drying pieces of hide for making pampooties.
Description Photograph of a woman drying pieces of hide for making pampooties on a stone wall outside her cottage, Aran Islands. The top of the stone wall runs across the foreground. The woman stands on the right, turned towards the camera. With both hands she holds a piece of hide in front of her. She wears a button up jumper with a hole in the left sleeve. The cottage, in the back/midground, is thatched. To the right, in front of it, is a large bush. In the left midground a ladder lies against the cottages gable wall.
Date 01/01/1952
Date Issued 01/07/2022
Resource Type Still image
Archival Record Id p101002
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 60x60mm
Topic Pampooties,Hides and skins,Cottages,Thatched buildings,Thatched roofs,Stone walls,Women
Geographic Aran Islands (Ireland)
Temporal Nineteen fifties,Twentieth century
Genre Black and white
Creator / Author Name George Pickow