A new collection of images of Highland travellers from the 1920s to the 1940s have been discovered. All photos courtesy of the Gordon Shennan Collection, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, High Life Highland.
1. A traveller's friend
Photographer Gordon Shennan became friends with a number of travelling families through the Highlands as he sought to create a genuine document of the people and their way of life. Angus Stewart and his family are pictured putting up their bow tent, made from hazel willows, near Carrbridge sometime in the 1930s or 1940s. The family of seven slept together with straw used as a mattress. | Other 3rd Party Photo: Gordon Shennan
2. Welfare at heart
A travelling fiddler plays a tune on a fence. The photographer, originally from Galloway, was an electrical engineer who became interested in social welfare while working in London, where he volunteered at a Cockney Mission. | Other 3rd Party Photo: Gordon Shennan
3. A day-to-day record
A travelling woman rests at side of road as policeman looks on. Shennan started work in the Highlands in 1925 when he took up a new post as inspector for the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. | Other 3rd Party Photo: Gordon Shennan
4. A roving eye
Man and his dog and a shower hanging from the tree. The photographer toured the Highlands first on a motorbike and then in a van with his work as an inspector allowing him close access to the travelling community. | Other 3rd Party Photo: Gordon Shennan