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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary note about 'Ullag', c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/25
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Vocabulary note about 'Ullag' that it is 'A stone put in red hot to dry corn'. The note includes the phrase 'Ha! ha! tiondaigh claich fo d shiol!' and also that 'Biorsamaid = steel yard'.

Dates: c1893

Vocabulary note for Bíta or bíteal [churn], 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/58
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Vocabulary note for Bíta or bíteal [churn] collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay describing the leather 'imideal' tied around the mouth of the churn and the manner in which it would be used to churn butter.

Dates: 10 July 1870

Vocabulary notes and saying connected to wool, basket-making and weavework, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/176
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Vocabulary notes and saying connected to wool, basket-making and weavework probably from Hiorta/St Kilda including 'Balgan-aurais = Auras the bag in which oiled wool is put when ri calanas'; 'Adhrac-bhuaic = Horn in which grease is kept for household purposes', different words for 'Pill' including 'Sgiathag' and the saying 'Chan e aurais tha air mo chuig[e]il'.

Dates: June 1887

Work song entitled 'Beil a Chailleach Bhra', 7 April 1869 to 30 September 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/44
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Work song entitled 'Beil a Chailleach Bhra' [or Òran na Bràth], beginning 'Beil a chaoil[leach] a bhrath'. The text has been scored through and a note reads 'Transcribed into Book No III page 53 30 Sept[ember] 1875 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'.

Dates: 7 April 1869 to 30 September 1875