Women
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
Group of Tehuantepequenas, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a group of Tehuantepequenas, or indigenous Mexican women from the Oaxaca region posing for a portraint in traditional dress in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Indian Way of Carrying Children, 1870s-1930s
Portrait photograph of an Indian woman in Mexico carrying her young child in a sling on her back in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Indian Women from the Pueblas Near Colima [Mexico], 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a group of Indian women from the Pueblas near Colima [Mexico] in the early 20th century.
Maori Woman, North Island, New Zealand, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a Maori woman in traditional dress from the North Island in New Zealand in the early 20th century.
Monda [Munda] Women, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of two Monda [Munda] women standing in front of a set of pillars in India in the early 20th century.
Note about breid an crannaig, c1872
Note about breid an crannaig, that it 'was the crosgaoileit worn on infants a triangular pice of cloth on on[e] side of the head on m[arried] women'.
Note about Cladh Churalain [St Cyril's Graveyard], 27 September 1883
Note about Cladh Churalain [St Cyril's Graveyard] collected from John Livingstone 'Muillear Mòr', Portnacroish, Appin [Port na Crois, An Apainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] aged 73, that the women dragged corpses to the graveyard as no men were left to carry them.
Note about how crofters' daughters are dressed, c1893
Note about how crofters' daughters are dressed remarking that they are 'as becomingly dressed as the average young lady in Princes St[reet]' [Edinburgh].
Note about the rocks 'Leac na Bana-Ghoisich' and 'Na h-Uird Bhairneach', 3 February 1874
Note about the rock 'Leac na Bana-Ghoisich' that it is a dolmen at Kilbride [Cille Bhrìghde, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and was where a bana-ghoiseach [possibly god-mother] was burnt. Also notes that Na h-Uird Bhairneach are 'long lintels lying down.'
Note about Uilleam Ros [William Ross] and Mairi Nic Coinnich [Mary MacKenzie], c1866
Note probably collected from Alexander MacKenzie, Uisgeabhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula about Uilleam Ros [Uilleam Ros/William Ross] and Mairi Nic Coinnich [Màiri NicChoinnich/Mary MacKenzie] that his poem 'A nighean bhoidheach an or fhui[l]t' was written by Ross about MacKenzie.