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Wild Animals

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'Loch Utramal', March 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/73
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Loch Utramal' [Loch Udromuil Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] collected from John Morrison, ground officer, describing it as a large lake near Airdsleave [Àird Shlèibhe] where his father told him that during hard frost thick ice on the loch was broken right through and a pathway made from shore to island noting that it 'must have been made by animal 40 y[ea]rs ago'. The story also tells how a woman saw a strange looking animal moving among her cattle one morning, the animal was...
Dates: March 1874

Story relating to Saint Ronan, 27 October 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/5
Scope and Contents

Story relating to Saint Ronan probably collected from Angus Gunn, cottar, Dail bho Thuath/North Dell, Nis/Ness, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis telling how St Ronan made his way to the island which became Roney [Rònaidh/North Rona] pursued by a wild beast. The story also relates that Ronan built a chapel on the island and that his two sisters followed him there.

Dates: 27 October 1873

Vocabulary note for wild animals, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/197
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note for wild animals which reads 'Martin = Taghan P[ole] cat. Feocarlan Broc-munaid B[roc] coin'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Wild Asses, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3121
Scope and Contents

Four photographs of wild asses standing in paddocks in the early 20th century. The two top images are of the Kiang, the 'wild ass of the deserts of northern Asia' and the two bottom images depict the wild asses of Syria and India.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

[Wild Goats], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3457
Scope and Contents

Illustration of three wild goats in the mountains.

Dates: 1870s-1930s