Women
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
Customs relating to girls and marriage, c1870
Customs relating to La Fheill Mìcheil [St Michael's Day], c1872
Customs relating to La Fheill Mìcheil [Là Fhèill Mhìcheil or St Michael's Day/Michaelmas] including that 'glac churran' [load of carrots] was given to the lad who gave the 'culag' [piggy-back]; that wives were not allowed at the [horse] race; and that 'Struan Mìcheil' was made of 'glas[s] of whisky black carrowy yolk of egg'.
Expression for a talkative woman, September 1884
Expression for a talkative woman collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'Bu tu an gloc air garadh'.
Famous War Heroine, Lieutenant Flora Sanders, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of the famous war heroine, Lieutenant Flora Sanders who served with the Serbian Army during World War I and 'received many awards for bravery' standing with her brother in a doorway at Bendigo, Australia in 1921.
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887
Fragment of a poem entitled 'Barraglas', 6 July 1892
Fragment of a poem entitled 'Barraglas' probably collected from Duncan MacNiven, retired schoolmaster, Airds, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, beginning 'Bean na sui[dhe] air an lar, Bra[th] eadar da chois'. The poem has one verse of four line and the second verse has two line and looks to be incomplete. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Fragment of a song beginning 'An toir u do niean domh', 15 August 1883
Fragment of a song collected from Donald MacGregor, Baile Garbh/Bailegarve, Lios Mòr/Lismore, beginning 'An toir u do niean domh Chail[leach] an Dudain' [Cailleach an Dùdain or Old Woman of the Dust Mill].
Fragment of a story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge', March 1874
Group of Parsee Ladies, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a group of six Parsee women posing together in traditional dress in the early 20th century.