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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates:
2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Note containing vocabulary for 'foireich' [upper side of a quern], 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/270
Scope and Contents
Note which reads 'Foirich [scored out] Foireich = Upper side of a quern Mairi niean Alastair Ruai [supra: snuff] bra now'.
Dates:
1884
Note entitled 'Coithean or Cuman', 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/50
Scope and Contents
Note by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Coithean or Cuman' about making pails for milking. The size of the 'bleoghean' varied according to the number of cattle to be milked in the fold. 'There were twelve staves in it a black and white in succession and the twelveth (sic) was five or six inches higher and thicker at the top. It was the handle.' If the staves of a 'Coithean' showed their original colour then the milkmaid was deemed 'clean and tidy and qualified to make...
Dates:
1894
Story entitled 'Clachan Lainginis' and accompanying song, 4 April 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/34
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Clachan Lainginis', collected from Hector MacIosaig, Keanlangvat [Ceannlangabhat, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] - story of MacMhuirich and small animal and keeping it until mother has performed tasks for him
Dates:
4 April 1872
Story entitled 'Mac Mhuirich Mor', 27 May 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/46
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Mac Mhuirich Mor' probably collected from Penelope MacLellan, Ormacleit/Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The text bears a number of annotations and amendments in pencil and has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The story tells how MacMhuirich Mòr found a small cat-like creature and took it home. His wife urged him to return the creature to where he had found it but he refused. The creature's mother came looking for her young and threatened to cause...
Dates:
27 May 1869
Vocabularly note for 'Luirgneachan' and 'Gearraiste', 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/43
Scope and Contents
Vocabularly note for 'Luirgneachan' and 'Gearraiste', the former being 'that part of the tether next the foot' and the latter 'the part next the ciopain the udalan between'. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1901
Vocabulary note for 'Foiriche', March 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/68
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note for 'Foiriche' that it is a 'mallet [supralinear: handle] for pounding barley for broth'.
Dates:
March 1874
Vocabulary note which reads 'Loineachan = Small loinid', 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/167
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note which reads 'Loineachan = Small loinid'.
Dates:
1894