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Total number of records: 28

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culture28
english language - dialects28
persons11
folk drama10
community life9
holidays9
manners and customs9
rites and ceremonies9
play8
clothing and dress7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)6
Olayemi, Rufus V K4
Taylor, Mr3
Anderson, Peter M2
Bickerdike, E1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Center For Applied Linguistics1
Clutton, Bill1
Cooke, Jane A1
Gibbin, J.1
Haymaking: Hay Rakes
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Haymaking: Hay Rakes

[1970s]

Family of 5 (2 adult males, 2 adult women, and 1 boy) using hay rakes to gather cut hay in a field at an unidentified location, probably in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Haymaking: Hay Rake
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Haymaking: Hay Rake

[1970s]

Family(?) (3 adult males and 3 adult females) working in a line using hay rakes to gather the hay crop in a field at an unidentified location. Sheep dog in foreground to the left.

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

Taylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of (adult) pace eggers performing at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The whole cast is present in this photograph, and all are in costume.

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

Taylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of (adult) pace eggers performing at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. Two costumed characters [?St. George and Black Prince].

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

Taylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of (adult) pace eggers performing at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. Two costumed characters [?St. George and Black Prince].

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Sound Recordings, Nigeria

Olayemi, Rufus V K

[1960s]

Adult male informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Tales related in Ekiti, an Ado sub-dialect.

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Sound Recordings, Nigeria

Olayemi, Rufus V K

[1960s]

Adult male and child informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Tales told in the Egba, Odeda, Egbado, Anago and Awori...

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Kippax Pace Eggers
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Kippax Pace Eggers

Bickerdike, E

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of pace eggers performing a pace egg play in the garden of the vicarage at Kippax (West Yorkshire). The pace eggers appear all to be adults, and are dressed in quite elaborate cos...

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Sound Recordings, Nigeria

Olayemi, Rufus V K

[1960s]

Adult and child informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Includes also narration and chants, with listeners' respons...

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Sound Recordings, Nigeria

Olayemi, Rufus V K

[1960s]

Adult and child informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Children possibly recorded at a school. Tales related in Eg...

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Sword Dance Team
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Sword Dance Team

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1949, of the Goathland Sword Dance Teamperforming in Goathland (North Yorkshire). The team appears to be largely made up of boys rather than adult men. The dancers are sp...

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Sword Dance Team
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Sword Dance Team

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken around 1961, of the Goathland Plough Stots performing in uniform, Goathland (North Yorkshire). The team is made up of adult men, and is accompanied by Mr. J. Gibbin (who car...

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