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Seals (Animals)

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

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Account of the preparation of seals for eating and accompanying proverb, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/44
Scope and Contents

Account of the preparation of seals for eating in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, including pressing blubber to extract oils. Carmichael recalls tasting the flesh of a young seal on Heisgeir [Heisker/Monach Isles] and that it was 'very agreeable.' and like venison. The accompanying proverb reads 'Bu mhath am biadh feamanaich aran seagail agus saill roin'.

Dates: c1875

Fragment of a poem beginning 'Chunna mise sin s cha b ionagh' and accompanying note, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/175
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Fragment of a poem beginning 'Chunna mise sin s cha b ionagh, Na muca marra mor mora a seinn'' and accompanying note that it was composed by a guilty man about to be hanged [and who had to compose twelve false verses to escape the noose].

Dates: June 1887

Incomplete notes on seal-hunting areas around North Uist and accompanying sayings, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/36
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Incomplete notes on the different areas and pennylands in the north west of Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and the proportion of caught seals they receive and an accompanying note relating to Odar, the Viking raider, whose head was buried in Griminis/Griminish.

Dates: c1875

Note about seal-hunting grounds under the heading 'Roin', c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/19
Scope and Contents

Note about seal-hunting grounds under the heading 'Roin' describing how Haisgeir [Theisgeir/Heisker/Monach Isles] seals were divided into different grounds for the crew at sea, Griminnis and Chill-a-Pheadair [Griminis/Griminish and Cille Pheadair/Kilpheder, both Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist].

Dates: c1875

Note about seal hunting rights in a grant by King David I, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/45
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Note about seal hunting rights in a grant by King David I as recorded in Pennant's A tour in Scotland, and voyage to the Hebrides, 1772 (see bibliography below).

Dates: c1875

Note about sealife, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/91
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Note about sealife probably collected on Ìle/Islay which reads 'Luga gheal like the one on shore. Larg[e] seal as big as any ox in Laudal [Labhdal/Laudale]. Ron [ròin or seals] fond of ceol.'

Dates: June 1887

Note about seals at Griminis, North Uist, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/46
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Note about seals at Griminis, North Uist [Griminish, Uibhist a Tuath] that their cry is often mistaken for the cry of a child and that they are 'driven by storms from Hausgeir and take shelter among the rocks and reefs in the sound between Griminis and Vàllay' [Eilean Hasgeir/Haskeir Island and Bhàlaigh].

Dates: c1875

Note about seals from Cousmal under the heading 'Roin', c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/37
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Note under the heading 'Roin' about seals from Causmal [Causmal, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] under the heading 'Roin' stating that they belong to Baile rathail, Peighinne mhoir and Hougearaidh [Baile Raghnaill/Balranald, Peighinn Mhòr/Penmore and Hogha Gearraidh/Hougharry]. It gives the names of the different seals which go to the minister, the blacksmith and the people of Boreray [Boraraigh].

Dates: c1875

Note about seals on Heisker, 1869 to 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/35
Scope and Contents

Note about seals on Haisgeir [Theisgeir/Heisker] including their dispersal to various places in Uist [Uibhist] and the preparation of 'Cuilein Micheil' [roast seal] on Michaelmas night. Text has been scored through and a note reads 'Transcribed into No I p.181 Creagory [Creag Ghoraidh/Creagorry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] 7 October 1875'.

Dates: 1869 to 1875

Note entitled 'Roinn Nan Ron', c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/42
Scope and Contents

Note entitled 'Roinn Nan Ron' describing the manner in which hunted seals were divided amongst the people in Peighinn mhor Ghriminnis, Scolpaig and Cille-Pheadair [Peighinn Mhòr, Griminis/Griminish and Kilpheder all Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist]

Dates: c1875