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Hunting

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

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary note for 'Goisneach' [snare], June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/182
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note for 'Goisneach' [snare] which reads 'Goisneach Goisneachan-ean A bird snare of horse hair'.

Dates: June 1887

Vocabulary note for 'Stèireadh', 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/38
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note, probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay which reads 'Stèireadh = Killing birds at the top of a rock with a long stick like a stone fishing rod.'

Dates: 1867

Wild Boar, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/548
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two African men sitting next to a [dead?] Wild Boar in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

William Burton-Stewart bound Game books

 Collection — Box CLX-D-72: Series Coll-1828/6
Identifier: Coll-1887
Scope and Contents Two 'game books' which belonged to Major William Burton-Stewart, containing score tables recording his session of game birds shooting and black-and-white photographs of social events, hunting, and people. It also includes sketches and handwritten biographical and travelling accounts by Burton-Stewart himself. Places mentioned in the game books include Ratho Park, Conaglen, Stroud, Darleith, Lothians and the Borders, Venice, India, Ontario (Canada), etc.Highlights in the first...
Dates: 1889-1935