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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 116 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary list for fish and shellfish and some related sayings, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/178
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary list for fish and shellfish, including several descriptions of fish such as 'Falmair = Large teeth col[our] of Salm[on] as long + lith[e as an] eel - coarse fish'; 'Cilig = Cod'; 'Sachasan = sand eel' and some related sayings including 'S boc[hd] an clad[ach] air nach fhaig[hear] maor[aich]'.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary list for types of placenta, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/144
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary list for types of placenta composed of 'Tearnadh', 'Cruthach', 'Bathar' and 'Seile' being respectively the placentas of a woman, mare, cow and lastly hind, sheep and goat.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for 'siadhan' ['testicle'] and 'sgeul-ruin' ['secret'], c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/79
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note for 'siadhan' ['testicle'] and 'sgeul-ruin' ['secret'].

Dates: c1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for 'Tosdaidh front teats', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/139
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Tosdaidh front teats tondaidh hind teats.'

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for 'Truis = Druis = Pig', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/138
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Truis = Druis = Pig sow the native pigs of Uist. White & spotted. Small ears standing upright. Short snouts easy fed. Strong bristly. Extinct now 1894.'

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

When You Buy a Dairy Cow…, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2815
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a dairy cow with various points of the body identified. The text on the slide reads, 'When you buy a dairy cow look out for these points. They are the outward and visible signs of a good milker'.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection