Reeds Collection (page 3)

Japan - Woman her two children disturb a stork
Japan - A Woman with her two children disturb a stork from the rushes beside a river or pool. Date: 1905

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Otometoge Date: circa 1910s

South Korea - Children making a Ying Yang design Kite Date: circa 1910s

Sudan - An Ambatch Canoe on the White Nile Date: circa 1910

Small Baby boy in a Moses Basket amid the reeds. The child is showing admirable resourcefulness in taking along a brolly, in case of showers or passing high speed motor boats

Canal Scene, Bermuda Date: circa 1909

Design for textile with flowers, birds and insects. Gouache on drawing paper. Franklin & Franklin; Silver Studio. circa 1935

Mycenae Dagger / Knossos
Inlaid designs on a Mycenae dagger-blade. Cheetahs and Khaffre cats hunting ducks on the banks o the Nile

Wolves and winter reeds

Snipe bird in reeds

Bird and boat among reeds. Date between 1870 and 1900

Blackbird near reeds in snow. Date between 1890 and 1920

Indigenous reed boat on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Totora reeds have been used by various pre-Columbian South American civilizations to build reed boats. The boats, called balsa, vary in size from small fishing canoes to thirty meters long

Betsimisaraka man carrying reeds
A Betsimisaraka man from Madagascar carrying two large bales of rushes/reeds, canes. The Betsimisaraka constitute the second largest group (15%) of Madagascars population. Date: circa 1910s

Fishermen by the Danube, Romania
Russian fisherman on the banks of the Danube River at Braila, Romania. Their nets are hanging on racks on the left of this image. Date: 1902

China - Qingdao - Tradesmen
China - Qingdao (Tsingtao) - Tradesmen, selling a variety of foodstuffs, ceremic pots, plates and bowls, reed bags, grills and dried rushes. Date: circa 1910s

REED SWANS
A lovely study of a swan among the reeds at the edge of a river. Date: 1950s

Swan Pen & her Cygnets
A lovely study of a protective swan (pen) watching over her cygnets. Date: 1930s

Buffalo and hunter on horseback, Sri Lanka
Charge in High Reeds -- a buffalo emerging from reeds confronts a hunter on horseback in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 1854

Girl in a boat by George Ranstead, 1918
Charming illustration on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps and who illustrated a large number of postcards during the period

Bucolic country scene near Waveney, Suffolk
Cattle on the estuary marshes near Waveney, Suffolk. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Heron taking flight
A Heron takes off from a reedbed alongside a stream under a wooden footbridge. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Mallards pass a windmill
Mallard ducks fly past a marsh Windmill. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Loading up a camel - Algeria. There is a set of scales (and administration desk) in the background to make sure the weight of the goods is correctly recorded prior to departure

Karachi - Camel Train
A Camel Train - Karachi. In 1937, Karachi was in India - became part of newly created Pakistan in 1947. The camels appear to be carrying large bundles of reeds

A camel train - Constantinople
A camel train passing through Constantinople

Sunbeam motorcycle, Norfolk Broads, 1933
A chic young woman in shorts and beret stops outside some modern almshouses on the Norfolk Broads on her Sunbeam motorcycle

Fantasy Landscape with Lake and Reeds - Left
A view through lakeside reeds across the still water toward distant hills and mountains. Fantasy Diptych painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Evening lakeside scene with reeds
A view of a still lake in the evening light. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Stratford-Upon-Avon
The River Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace and sometime home of William Shakespeare and the home today of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Papua New Guinea - Hanuabada Village

Papua New Guinea - Ekiti Village, Sogeri - Tree House
A fantastic treehouse at Ekiti Village, Sogeri, Papua New Guinea

Firewood Carrier - Japan
An old man carries two very large and very neat bundles of firewood on a yolk, Japan

Somali Woman - Coronation Exhibition
A Somali Woman weaving in the entrance to her reed hut - an exhibit at the Coronation Exhibition of 1911 in London

Processing reeds and plants
Agricultural processes in a province in North-west India, now a part of modern-day Pakistan. The men are collecting reeds and drying plants on a long string from a rapidly-drying riverbed

Riverside scene - Pakistan
A Pakistani man gathering tall reeds/rushes growing alongside a small stream. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Men and women collect and tie reed bundles
Collecting and tieing reed bundles by a stream in a province formerly part of India and now wiithin modern Pakistan. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Two Men tie reeds by a stream
Two men working by a stream (in a former Indian province which now forms part of Modern Pakistan). They are tying up bundles of reeds. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Ber-Rechid, Morocco - Gourbi Huts
Traditional Arab huts / shelters (Gourbi) at Ber-Rechid, Morocco made out of reeds

Catching fish in an old boot
A humourous painting by Malcolm Greensmith depicting a lad fishing by a stream (ignoring the warning sign!) having far more success catching fish in his boot

Bystander Masthead 1930
A stylised art deco style illustration for the Bystander masthead showing a languide river scene with a bright young thing relaxing & smoking in a boat bobbing by the bank

Transatlantic Sketches, Iowa Prairie
Atmospheric engraving of American Indian standing in his canoe in the reeds watching the river at the horizon

Palace Minos King Stucco
Interior of the Palace : A painted stucco relief allegedly of King Minos

CHAIRS TO MEND
A girl with basket of reeds and a chair over one shoulder cries chairs to mend!

Rush Gatherers 1878
Three children set out rush gathering in a small rowing boat. A boy holds a sickle in his hand. The rushes are used for rush seats for chairs & for baskets etc

Swans Among Reeds
Swans swimming among marshland reeds

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