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List of vocabulary probably from travelling people (often known as 'tinkers' cant') containing words and expressions mostly for food and clothing probably collected on the Isle of Barra/Barraigh. Text has been scored out as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Note about breid an crannaig, that it 'was the crosgaoileit worn on infants a triangular pice of cloth on on[e] side of the head on m[arried] women'.

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Note by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, entitled 'Observations' describing 'Corra cnamh' as a milkmaid sitting with her knees half bent and her skirt folded on her heels to support her instead of a stool. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Proverb beginning 'Cha'n fhir mi ri uallach, Cha dean buar/cas luath maor'. The vocabulary note reads 'Furas = Patience'.

Scope and Contents Song collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, entitled 'Coisgrigeadh an Aodaich' [Consecration of the Cloth]. The song begins 'S math gha'ainsa mo rann, A teuma le gleann' and is composed of lines. The accompanying note describes the work done while the song is sung, 'The web is made into a roll. All the women work at the roll patting it and the rann is said three times over. Then at the end the roll is tossed end over and say A a aodach seo...

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Vocabulary note probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, for 'gartan luachar', and 'Carraig na biodaig' which are a garter made of 'rush woven and plaited' and the 'roup of the biodag' [dagger]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Vocabulary notes for 'bean-nighidh' [washerwoman] and 'Freath' [edge].