Manual work
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Chart I. Distribution of Labour, 1870s-1930s
Chart showing a 'graphical representation of manual labour week by week regarding livestock on farms from May 1922 to April 1923.
Chart III. Distribution of Labour, 1870s-1930s
Chart showing a 'graphical representation of manual labour week by week regarding livestock on farms from April 1923 to March 1924.
Expressions connected to labouring, September 1884
Expressions connected to labouring collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] including 'Diluain is the day to begin all work' and that 'amhlaireac' means provoking playfulness
Family history and story about Clanvurich Staoligeary and accompanying verse, 29 October 1872
Fragment of a song beginning 'Cait an ro thu 'n diugh 's an de', c1892
Fragment of a song [Buain nan Dearcan ris an Sprèidh or Plucking Berries by the Fold] beginning 'Cait an ro thu 'n diugh 's an de, Mhic Iain Ghasdain! Mhic Iain Ghasdain!'. There are only three lines to the fragment with three blank lines between the first two lines and the third line. The text has been written in ink.
Note about a sawpit on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870
Note about a sawpit on Tarasaigh/Taransay that according to Alexander Carmichael it was 'The best saw pit I have ever seen' and describing its dimensions and situation on the island.
Notes about the bird fulmar and St Kildans, June 1887
Notes about the bird fulmar and St Kildans that on Hiorta/St Kilda each fulmar is valued at seven pence each between 'oil bird + feather'; that men keep a 'goile Sulaire' on their belts into which they put a fulmar's bill for pouring out oil; describing how fulmars are caught; how the carcasses are divided and how wages are deducted for loss of any birds. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Notes and story about Naomh Moire [Maol-ruibhe], Naomh Brian[ain] and associated archaeological sites, 1867
Quern song beginning 'Beil a bhrath chail[leag]', 1887
Quern song beginning 'Beil a bhrath chail[leag]'.
Quote about cleaning and grinding corn, c1893
Quote about cleaning and grinding corn as it is carried out by women, taken from '[David] Livingstone's Last Journals Ulungu country p 214.'