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Bernard, Jean-Frederic (1683?-1744)1
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Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde : représentées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard [i.e. Picart], avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses

Picart, Bernard (1673-1733); Bernard, Jean-Frédéric (1683?-1744); Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

1723

Title pages printed in red and black; title vignettes (part engraved); head- and tail-pieces; initials.

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Ripon Sword Dancers

Bland, David

December 1972

Three sword dancers performing in the street on Boxing Day, in Ripon (North Yorkshire). The men wear costumes consisting of smock-like garments covered with small pieces of coloured and patterned mate...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Lancashire

Harrop, Peter K

March 1978

[Collector announcement]; Brighouse Children's Theatre perform a Pace Egg Play, outside the Piece Hall in Halifax on the 25 March 1978. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; the Britannia Coconut Dancer...

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Bridal Tapestry (Norway)
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Bridal Tapestry (Norway)

January 1965

Bridal tapestry from Drivstua (Norway), dating to around 1600. The tapestry is double-woven in frieze form, and is made up of four pieces sewn together. It is heavily patterned with human figures and ...

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Divining Chains
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Divining Chains

Ross, Mr

1978

Card-mounted copy of a photograph of Ejagham divining chains. There are two pairs of chains, each consisting of four mango seed pod halves tied at regular intervals with a piece of string. Symbolic ob...

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Folklore Survey (Goathland)

Green, R J

1963

A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

November 1970

John Swales [JS], recorded in Merryfield Glen, sings I've got a father in the better land [first line]; Poor ?Jeffrey's gone to rest[first line], and other song fragments, including 'See Amid the Wint...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 31 October 1974; talks about remembering songs and giving song texts to other people; sings 'There Were Two Jolly Sportsmen' [incomplete - recites...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1959-1960

Alf Odell, recorded in Gravenhurst in November 1959; describes the process of thatching a haystack/rick; his working clothes and the tools used [ Bert Kefford and Doris Kefford join in]; Mr. Kefford a...

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The Rites of Passage of Baptism, Marriage and Death in Shotton Colliery

Hargreaves, Lesley

1982

A study of birth, marriage and death customs observed by the people of Shotton Colliery in the early part of the twentieth century, based on printed sources and recollections gathered by the collector...

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