Women
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Luaidag Bhe[a]g O'n Chailltain', 7 February 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/21
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Luaidag Bhig O'n Chailltain' [The Little Rag from the Hazel] collected from Donnach McDhiarmid [Duncan MacDiarmaid], Fearann an Leatha at Carbost [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea and Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story tells of a girl who sets out to make her way in the world and is taken in by a wealthy man who asks her to go and take the hen of gold, the cockerel of silver, the sword of light and the bag of mischief from a giant. When she takes the hen, it...
Dates:
7 February 1861
Story relating to George Munro, John Munro, Hugh MacEachen and Father Ranald MacEachen and accompanying poem, 1892
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/22
Scope and Contents
Story relating to George Munro, John Munro, Hugh MacEachen and Father Ranald MacEachen. The story tells how George Munro lived until he was ninety-one years old and was the son of John Munro, minister of Duirinish, Skye [Diùirinis, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. Once when Clanranald was on the Isle of Skye, he asked John Munro what favour he could do him and the reply was to give Uibhist a Deas/South Uist to his son George. On another occasion George 'showed kindness' to Father...
Dates:
1892
Texas Bathers, 1870s-1930s
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Identifier: Coll-1434/2913
Scope and Contents
Photograph of three women in swimming costumes standing in a river in front of a bank of trees in Texas in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
The story of 'Fionladh Choinnachain' and accompanying note, c1862
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/6
Scope and Contents
The story of 'Fionladh Choinnachain' and accompanying note which states that the reciter, who is not named, 'heard the story from an old man Donull MacPhee [Donald MacPhee] who lived at Talamh-sgeir [Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye], a man the like of whom he never at all heard for Sgialacun [sgeulachdan or tales]. The reciter remembers only a mere fraction of what he heard'. The story was collected at Ferann-an-le [Fernilea] on 21 February 1862. The story is about...
Dates:
c1862
Tibetan Women, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1125
Scope and Contents
Photograph of three Tibetan women wearing traditional dress sitting together outside in the mountains in the late 19th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104
Scope and Contents
Transciption notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The inside front cover is inscribed in ink with 'Bought at Wadebridge Cornwall Dec[ember] 1 1864 p 1/6 A A Carmichael' and the opposite page has 'A A Carmichael' written on it in pencil. The notebook contains Fenian songs or tales mainly collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, some of which are repeated in full or in part. These include 'Laoidh na Muileartaich', 'Duan an Deirg' and 'A' Bhraoin Chaorain'....
Dates:
1864-1869
Verse beginning 'Tha bhean is bo', 1892
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/35
Scope and Contents
Verse beginning 'Tha bhean is bo, bu nabainn dhomh a gleann' and composed of seven lines.
Dates:
1892
Verse from 'Cailleach an dudain' beginning 'An toir thu do nighean domh Chailleach an dudain?', 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/344
Scope and Contents
Verse from 'Cailleach an dudain' [Cailleach an Dùdain or Old Woman of the Dust Mill] beginning 'An toir thu do nighean domh Chailleach an dudain?'
Dates:
1887
Verse from the song 'Cailleach an Dudain', August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/119
Scope and Contents
Verse from the song 'Cailleach an Dudain' [Cailleach an Dùdain or Old Woman of the Dust Mill] beginning 'An toir u do mian domh'.
Dates:
August 1883
Vocabulary list for types of placenta, 1894
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/144
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary list for types of placenta composed of 'Tearnadh', 'Cruthach', 'Bathar' and 'Seile' being respectively the placentas of a woman, mare, cow and lastly hind, sheep and goat.
Dates:
1894