Colour photograph of decorated bone combs from the broch at Vaul in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
Decorated Viking bone combs from the broch at Vaul photographed in the Hunterian Museum in May 2006.
2008.25.6
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2008.13.1
Clydesdale horse shoe made by Donald MacIntyre of Gott.
Clydesdale horse shoe made by Donald MacIntyre of Gott in 2001 to bring luck to new extension to An Iodhlann. Donald has the last working smiddy on Tiree.
2007.126.3
Black and white photograph of Neil MacPhaiden of Salum with his seven children.
Neil MacPhaiden (centre front) with his five sons – Malcolm, Donald, Neil, Alexander and Charles – and two daughters – Catherine (left) and Mary Anne (right). The sisters married brothers Thomas and William Purvis.
Neil was born in 1807, the son of Donald MacPhaiden of Salum and his wife Catherine MacNaughton. The family emigrated to Canada in 1821 and settled in Brock Township Ontario. Neil married Mary MacLean who died in 1851. Neil himself died in 1881 and he and his wife are buried in the Old Scotch Cemetery in Brock.
2007.122.8
Black and white photograph of the aircrew of Halifax LL123 from RAF Squadron 518.
The aircrew of Halifax LL123 from RAF Squadron 518, probably on Crossapol beach. 3rd from left: F/Sgt Ozzie Ozaist (Polish Met Air Obs).
2007.122.13
Three pages of printouts of scanned images of the memorabilia of W/O John Bristow from RAF Squadron 518.
Images of memorabilia belonging to W/O John Bristow from Tiree RAF Squadron 518: flying helmet and silk scarf, RAF cap, two photos, Atlantic chart, compasses, Squadron 518 plaque and log book.
2007.119.1
John MacLean of Balephuil and Manitoba
Photograph of John MacLean of Balephuil in Manitoba around 1900.
Courtesy of Mr Wallace Robertson
This photograph, taken around 1900, shows John MacLean of Balephuil outside his homestead in Manitoba. John, the son of Donald MacLean and his wife Ann MacLean, emigrated to Canada in 1878 with his brother Charles and nephew Hector.
They arrived in Tiverton, Ontario where John met and soon married a Tiree woman, Flora MacKinnon née MacLean, a widow with a daughter Kate. They all moved to the Brandon Hills area of Manitoba and homesteaded at Dewart Farm in Little Souris. They were among the first settlers in the area.
John, it was said, was a good bard, but his childhood friend John MacLean of Balemartine was the better of the two. He wrote a famous song ‘Manitoba’ describing their leaving from Balephuil, and the rage he felt that the Highlands, which had provided so many soldiers for the British Empire, were being stripped of its people.
Sepia photograph of John MacLean, the Balephuil bard, in Manitoba around 1900.
John MacLean (1825-1912), the son of Donald McLean of Sandaig and Anne McLean of Balemeannach. He emigrated from Balephuil in 1878 with his brother Charles and nephew Hector, eventually settling in Manitoba.
2007.105.1
Captain`s chair from the S.S. `Malve`.
Wooden swivel chair with iron base from the bridge of the S.S. `Malve`, a Finnish steamship wrecked off Balephetrish Bay in 1931. The chair was salvaged by Charles Lamont (Tearlach Iseabail) of the Coal-ree in Kenovay and acquired by Mairi MacFarlane (Mairi Tearlach Mairi) of Creagan Breac in Cornaigbeg, whose parents Charles (Tearlach Mòr) and Flora (Floraidh Lachainn Eòghain) MacKinnon ‘purchased’ the Coal-ree in 1952. It was restored by Alan Reid of Kenovay.
2007.103.1
Crois-iarna for winding yarn into hanks.
30″ wooden crois-iarna / niddy-noddy for winding 5ft-skeins, or hanks, of wool from a spinning wheel. Also known as ceanaldar or eachan.
2007.100.1
Goffering iron and poker.
Goffering iron and poker from Balevullin. The poker was made to fit the iron by Alan Reid of Kenovay. The iron was used for frills and lace on caps, aprons, nightgowns and underskirts. The poker would be heated until red-hot and inserted into the goffering iron. The moist starched fabric would be grasped in both hands and pressed over the heated tube of the iron.
2007.93.1
Police report on the theft of peats
Transcription of a police report on the theft of peats from the Tiree peat moss in the Ross of Mull in 1860.
Courtesy of Argyll & Bute Archives
In 1801 the 5th Duke of Argyll instructed his chamberlain of Tiree: ‘No peats to be allowed to crofters from the mosses in the island, which are nearly exhausted, but coals must be imported…They can be allowed to take peats from Ross in Mull if they chuse.’
In the previous century the people of Tiree had frequently resorted to the peat mosses in the Ross of Mull for their fuel, a practice that continued, some say, until the beginning of the 20th century. The men and boys would sail over to the Ross in the spring to cut and stack the peats, returning later in the year to ferry the dried peats back to Tiree.
In 1860 Effy MacKinnon of Ardtun appeared before Sheriff Robertson in Tobermory charged with stealing peats belonging to Gilbert MacDonald of Balemartine. She was found guilty and sentenced to six days imprisonment.
