Clothing and dress
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
Story under the heading 'Roin' entitled 'Buala Na Sgeir', c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/40
Scope and Contents
Story under the heading 'Roin' entitled 'Buala Na Sgeir' telling of a seal-hunting trip to Taisgeir [Eilean Hasgeir/Heisker Island] during which a storm broke and in order to save their boat, the crew all got on board. One boy from Howgearraidh [Hogha Ghearraidh/Hougharry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] did not manage to get on board and so was left behind. The boy was sad and so he lit a fire in a hidden spot beneath a rock. Many seals returned to the rock and began mourning the seals which...
Dates:
c1875
Tamil Man, 1870s-1930s
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Identifier: Coll-1434/3292
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a Tamil man in traditional dress 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
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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
Vocabulary note for 'gartan luachar' and 'Carraig na biodaig', 22 August 1903
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/2
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, for 'gartan luachar', and 'Carraig na biodaig' which are a garter made of 'rush woven and plaited' and the 'roup of the biodag' [dagger]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
22 August 1903
Vocabulary notes for 'bean-nighidh' [washerwoman] and 'Freath' [edge], c1894
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/58
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary notes for 'bean-nighidh' [washerwoman] and 'Freath' [edge].
Dates:
c1894