Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'
Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'
Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'
Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'
Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'
Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'
Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'
Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'
Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'

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The artwork commemorates the centenary of the birth of the Highland writer, Neil Miller Gunn, who was born in Dunbeath. The sculpture is of Kenn, a boy of nine, the central figure in Gunn’s novel ‘Highland River’, carrying home the huge salmon he caught with his bare hands in the Well Pool beside the Telford Bridge over the Dunbeath River.
Title

Kenn and the Salmon from 'Highland River'

Date

1991

Medium

bronze

Accession number

KW6_CF_S002

Acquisition method

commissioned by the Neil Gunn Society

Work type

Monument

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

8th November 1991

Access

at all times

Inscription description

plaque: KENN AND THE SALMON / FROM / "HIGHLAND RIVER" / ERECTED BY THE NEIL GUNN SOCIETY ON 8TH NOVEMBER 1991 / IN HONOUR OF NEIL M. GUNN, HIGHLAND WRITER, WHO / WAS BORN IN DUNBEATH ON 8TH NOVEMBER 1891 AND / WHO DIED IN INVERNESS ON 15TH JANUARY 1973.

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Located at

Portormin Road, Dunbeath

KW6 6EF

Sited at Dunbeath Harbour.