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Story about Taogai MacCuinn [MacQueen] probably collected from Ranald MacDonald, sheep farmer, Tarasaigh/Taransay, that he lived in Trotarnish, Skye [Tròndairnis/Trotternish, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] and that it is from him that all the MacQueen families in Skye and Uibhist/Uist descend. He is described as having been litigious and once put in a plea about corn which was damaged and he got off the charge by saying that the damage was done by seals rolling on the corn.

Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Cro Mara' [Crodh Mara or Sea Cattle] collected from Dun[can] Maclellan (Ban) [Donnachadh Bàn or Duncan MacLellan], Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. In the story, a widow on a remote island sees some strange cattle in her herd. She goes to the big house and asks an old man for advice. The old man tells her to keep watch night and day for a week. She does this and sees cattle coming up from the sea to her corn. She pens in the cattle, the likes of which she has never seen...

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Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1972, Vol. 2, G-Z.

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Photograph of six cows tethered together treading out the corn while an Indian man watches them in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Photograph of five ears of corn with uniform and ununiform kernels.

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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'.

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Photograph of two Zulu women wearing Western clothing stamping mealies in the early 20th century.