Women
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Note entitled 'Coithean or Cuman', 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/50
Scope and Contents
Note by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Coithean or Cuman' about making pails for milking. The size of the 'bleoghean' varied according to the number of cattle to be milked in the fold. 'There were twelve staves in it a black and white in succession and the twelveth (sic) was five or six inches higher and thicker at the top. It was the handle.' If the staves of a 'Coithean' showed their original colour then the milkmaid was deemed 'clean and tidy and qualified to make...
Dates:
1894
'Old Phrase' which reads 'An callach glucamach stucannach stachannach', 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/53
Scope and Contents
'Old Phrase' written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula which reads 'An callach glucamach stucannach stachannach'.
Dates:
1894