Spinning
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Song entitled 'Oran Si' and accompanying story, 29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/67
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Oran Si' [Seathan] collected from Mairi Fheargustan nin Coruna [Mary Ferguson], Carnish [Cairinis/Carinish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'Hura hurabhi o, B anns Seathan cul tota'. The song is composed of fifty lines and contains a number of annotations and amendments. The accompanying story tells how an old man in Baleshare [Baile Shear/Baleshare] called Iain mac Aonais MacAulay [John MacAulay] heard the song on a warm day while pulling heather at a known haunted...
Dates:
29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869
Song entitled 'Seathan' with accompanying note and vocabulary note, 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/23
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Seathan' collected from Mairi Dhonullach and Mairi [bean], Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] beginning 'Na huru o na hi horo, Na hi horo hogh o ho ho-o, Nach do leig iad sin us talamh lein'. The song is composed of twenty-three lines and has been scored through in ink with the following note written transversely over it 'B[ook] 2 P[age] [-] Transcribed June 16 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'. The note describes how the song was sung, 'The singer of the tuiream sings the...
Dates:
22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Spinning on Roadside near Dhenkanal [India], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/244
Scope and Contents
Photograph of two people spinning on the roadside near Dehnkanal in India in the early 20th century. One person is walking along side a series of posts holding two round skeins of fibre while one person watches.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
The origin of spinning, 1964
Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/182
Scope and Contents
Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1962 - 1964. Volume 3 of 19.
Dates:
1964