December 11, 2004

Here is a picture of Margaret Fay Shaw (November 9, 1903 to December 11, 2004)





She is holding one of the "famous Canna cats." I think the setting is her home, Canna House.

'Canna House on the tiny Isle of Canna in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It was gifted to them, along with the island itself, by the folklorists John Lorne Campbell and his wife Margaret Fay Shaw in 1981 and houses one of the world’s most extensive collections of Celtic Song and Folklore including original archive recordings from the early 20th Century. It also houses important collections of lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Margaret’s culturally important collection of black and white photographs of life in the Hebrides in the 1920’s and 30’s.'

A later charming photo of Shaw.