335g: Blessing the Nets

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/34/7
Level Sub-item
Donor/Creator Hasluck, Dr Frederick William
Scope and Content The original description in the catalogue reads: "Blessing with nets at the beginning of the fishing season in the Marmara Islands. The Black objects held up are the nets: the pappas (priest) is in the centre: the boats have remarkably graceful lines."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Travels and Studies of Sites and Monuments"
Related records [1936/2/2/34], 335: Asia Minor; F.W. Hasluck
[BSA SPHS/1/4664.9610], Marmara (Island): Pratsos (modern Gündoğdu), blessing of the nets, 1907