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Jougs
Collar like. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'used as a form of punishment, and were attached to Church doors, Churchyard gates, or Market Cross'.
Journal of a years residence and travel in the Hebrides, by William MacGillivray
Though born in Aberdeen, William MacGillivray spent his youth in the Hebrides, a group of islands off Scotland’s west coast. Aged 21 he travelled the region, keeping an account of the flora and fauna he observed, as well as the people he met and the…
Ka.door
Ka Door in three pieces, incised inscription of usual grave formulae and figures and titles of the deceased, traces of red colouring in limestone. Tomb of Athmu, Prophet of Pyramid of Assa, a Pharoah of the Vth dynasty. Reid (1912): 'Inscription…
kail gully
Kail gully, a cutting implement used to harvest kail, used in the 19th century. Wooden handle, with an iron candy-twist shaft and a steel blade
Kail gully. An iron tool with a thick wooden handle, about three feet long. The handle is round with a square end with a metal ring on it. The head of the tool consists of a twisted rod of iron with a wide S shaped projection on the end.
Kail gully, a cutting implement used to harvest kail, used in the 19th century. Wooden handle, with an iron candy-twist shaft and a steel blade.
kayak
Kayak, in seal skins sewed together with tendon and stretched over framework in pieces of redwood lashed together with strips of whalebone and hide. (Wooden girth and rope lashing round manhole modern - inserted 1900.)' Reported by Reid (1912) as…
Kelchin. A large, square wooden rack about a foot wide with a handle and hook for hanging.
Kelchin, in wood, 19th century. Suspended in the chimney to hold 'fir-candles' while being dried. Made from two bars of squared wood into which are let six unworked pieces of branch, like a ladder, and the handle is a bent branch. The iron hook is…
