Maighdean-Mhara by Blandine Anderson
Unique stoneware sculpture
26 x 20 x 7cm
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Maighdean-Mhara: In “A Late Voyage to St. Kilda” by Martin Martin, circa 1695, there is an account of the women of Benbecula coming across a mermaid in a rock pool. She was purported to have had hair of seaweed and the body of a salmon. When she later died it is said that she was buried near Baile nan Cailleach on Cula Bay. The star marks her resting place. Instead of salmon features, Blandine's Cula mermaid has seal body parts. She has four breasts (as does the seal), seaweed hair and hands which are half flipper. She wears a seal-tooth pendant around her neck. The reverse of the piece shows a seal skeleton and several seal-teeth.