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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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...