THE TATTOO

BY JAMES CADENHEAD

Image is of a troop of men marching with instruments. The men are in full traditional Scottish highland military garb; each man is wearing a kilt with a sporran at the front, a black cap (glengarry bonnet?), white kilt hose, and gillie brogue shoes. One man at the front is carrying a conducting baton. Eight men behind him carry bag pipes. These men have lengths of tartan across their shoulders. Two men at the back of the group to the right carry drums. These men are wearing plain white shirts with no tartan. Behind the men, a castle is visible in the distance. Lines in the sky indicate that the sky getting darker but is not dark yet. In the bottom right corner, the artist’s mark is visible, alongside the engraver’s signature “Hare Sc.” A black border encloses the image.

MLA citation:

Cadenhead, James. “The Tattoo.” The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, vol. 3, Summer 1896, p. 127. Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. The Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2018. https://1890s.ca/egv3_cadenhead_tattoo/

magazine_images The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal 3 The Tattoo James Cadenhead Pen and ink Hare Sc

1890s Scotland Exterior castle dusk evening Men soldiers musicians kilt tartan conductor pipers drummers Drums bagpipes baton Hare Sc