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Hunting

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

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

A Bear Hunt, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/288
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of men going on a bear hunt in Keonjhar, Orissa, India in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Boar Hunt, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1549
Scope and Contents

Illustration of the Prince of [?] on a wild boar hunt in the late 19th or early 20th century. It shows the Prince riding a horse spearing a wild boar that is running away through a jungle while a group of other men riding horses and running beside them follow in the background.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Coyote Hunting on the Plains of Colorado, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2938
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man driving a two-wheeled cart with dogs in cages and drawn by a pair of horses and captioned, 'On the way to a meet' on a road in the early 20th century. Above the image is the title and author of the book: 'Coyote Hunting on the Plain of Colorado' by Frank Sherman Peer.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Deer Stalking, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2242
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man tying a dead deer onto a horse as it grazes while another man assists in Scotland in the early 20th century. The two men were out deer stalking.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Fairy song beginning 'A Chiad Didaoirn an gheamhradh fhuar', c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/8
Scope and Contents

Fairy song collected from [Mary] Ferguson, Clad-Baileshear [Cladach a' Bhaile Shear/Claddach Baleshare, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'A Chiad Didaoirn an gheamhradh fhuar, S daor a phai mi duais nan sealg'. The song has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: c1870

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates: 1887

For a Reward, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/289
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a leopard being brought in for a government reward in Angul, India in the late 19th or early 20th century. Two Indian men in traditional dress carry the trussed leopard hanging from a pole between them while an Indian man in Western dress watches in the background.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Fragment of a song beginning 'Bu tu sealg a bhig', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/190
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song beginning 'Bu tu sealg[air] a bhig[ein], Nu[ai]r a thig an rothachan'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Fragment of a song entitled 'Laoidh Dhiarmaid', c1862

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/67
Scope and Contents Fragment of a song entitled 'Laoidh Dhiarmaid' [Lay of Diarmaid] collected from Donull Camashron [Donald Cameron], Coill-othar 'Clar-Sgiath' [Coille Odhar/Coillore, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The song begins 'Eisdibh mus ail leibh laoidh, Air a mhuinntir a dh'fhalbh uainn' and is composed of twenty-four lines. Annotations to the text have been made in pencil. The song is the beginning of the story in which Diarmaid, after having eloped with Grainne, Fionn's wife, goes boar...
Dates: c1862

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', c1861

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/13
Scope and Contents

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] probably collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] which can be found at CW109/2, folio 3v.

Dates: c1861