Women
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
A Beauty of Tehuantepec [Mexico], 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a woman wearing the traditional dress of the Tehuantepec, Oaxaca region in the early 20th century.
Account of fulling cloth and accompanying song, 1867
[African Zulu Tribeswomen], 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a group of African Zulu tribeswomen in traditional dress standing and sitting in front of a thatched hut and tree in the early 20th century.
Biographical notes on the poet Uilleam Ros [William Ross], 14 March 1866
Charm entitled 'Eolas At Chioch', c1870
Charm entitled 'Eolas At Chioch' [Charm for Swollen Breast] beginning 'Eolas a rinn Gillecalum, Air aona bho na caillich'. A note states that the charm is 'either to a woman or to a cow'.
Charm entitled 'Eolas Na Rua(dh), Ruai', 1883
Charm entitled 'Eolas Na Rua(dh), Ruai' [Charm for Rose] marked as being collected 'from the same' (although the name of the previous informant is not given) beginning 'Teich a bhradag rua' and accompanying note which reads 'This is thrice repeated over the woman affected with rose in her breast or over the cow which has it in the udder - substituting ugh for cioch'. The text of the charm has been scored through in pencil and an addition has been made to the text also in pencil.
Charm entitled 'Rann Buaichailleac' and accompanying notes, 28 October 1872
Custom entitled 'Cannach an t-Sleibhe' relating to a marriage test, June 1887
Custom entitled 'Cannach an t-Sleibhe' [canach an t-sleibhe or moss-cotton] relating to a marriage test in which a maid has to weave and sew a shirt of moss-cotton herself before she can get married. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Custom relating to marriage prediction, c1870
Custom relating to marriage prediction which reads 'Salt Herrings were eaten after having been roasted on the fire. The person seen coming to give a drink was the person to whom the girl was to be married.'
Customs related to fortune-telling, c1870
Customs related to fortune-telling including putting the white of an egg into a glass of clean water and the drawing out of a stack of a craobh-chorc [oat-tree-stalk] using the teeth. The number of grains remaining indicated the number of children and if the top grain came off, the person died.