Black and white photograph of John MacKinnon of Balephetrish.
John MacKinnon of Balephetrish aged about 70 using a flail, photographed by Eric Cregeen in 1960.
1999.272.7
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1999.272.8
Black and white photograph of John MacKinnon of Balephetrish.
John MacKinnon of Balephetrish aged about 70 using a flail, photographed by Eric Cregeen in 1960.
1999.93.1
Black and white photograph of a horse-drawn haycart.
A horse-drawn cart carrying hay from the field to the stackyard, photographed in the east end of Tiree in the beginning of the 20th century.
1999.93.2
Black and white photograph of a crofting family in their stackyard.
A crofting family in their stackyard in the east end of Tiree in the beginning of the 20th century. Note the pitchforks for tossing the hay up to the top of the stack.
1999.93.4
Black and white photograph of crofters in their stackyard.
Crofters in their stackyard taken in the east end of Tiree in the beginning of the 20th century. Note the wooden hay-rake.
1999.93.9
Black and white photograph of a croft`s vegetable garden.
The vegetable garden of an east end croft in the beginning of the 20th century.
1997.272.8
Paperback book `Highland Folk Ways` by I. F. Grant.
The sequences of adjustment that have taken place in the lives of Scottish Highland people in response to great social and economic pressures and the tenacity with which the influence of the ancient and distinctive social organisation of the Highlands has persisted. For references to Tiree see pages 16 and 106.
2000.240.1
Audio cassette recording of Margaret MacDonald of Cornaigmore talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.
Margaret MacDonald talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about buying ‘An Airigh’ in Cornaigmore in 1962 and using it as a holiday house until they took up permanent residence in 1981, the changes she’s seen in the shops, self-sufficiency, and crofting practices; Margaret also talks about how children today have less love of nature, how Mrs Campbell of Garaphail kept the Sabbath, the neighbouring croft that once belonged to novelist Alistair Maclean’s family and how milk was retailed in lemonade bottles.
1997.257.2
Board mounted photograph of a hay cart displayed in An Iodhlann`s 1997 exhibition.
Horse-drawn haycart – people unknown.
1997.242.1
Audio cassette recording of a Feis talk with Hector MacPhail, Hugh and Angus MacLean in 1997.
Feis Thiriodh talk in July 1996 with Hector MacPhail of Ruaig, Hugh MacLean of Barrapol and Angus MacLean of Scarinish answering questions from the public about mills and millers at Cornaigmore and Milton, township names, peat bogs in Coll and Mull, lazy beds, thatched houses, the clearances of 1875-7, crofting, erosion, horses, Land Leagues and land tenure, whiskey distilling, shipwrecks and HMS Sturdy.