File:Girl with ponytail-Women at the Quern.jpg

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Detail from an 18th century woodcut called "Women at the Quern and Luaghad with a view of Talyskir"

Deutsch: Das Mädchen links im Bild trägt einen Pferdeschwanz (Holzschnitt aus dem 18. Jahrhundert)
English: Detail from an 18th century engraving showing a girl and an older woman grinding grain. The quern rests on the skirts of the woman on the right, possibly to catch grain. Each is wearing a tonnag (a tartan shawl) over her shoulders.[1][2] The stìom (ribbon worn around the head) indicates that the wearer is unmarried; the girl also wears a ponytail.[3] The older woman wears a bonnet (muidse[4]).[2]
Date written in 1772
Source Thomas Pennant's "A Tour in Scotland" (direct source: http://www.marariley.net/celtic/images/quern.jpg)
Author
Moses Griffith  (1747–1819)  wikidata:Q6915789
 
Moses Griffith
Alternative names
Moses Griffiths
Description British illustrator and printmaker
Date of birth/death 25 March 1747 Edit this at Wikidata 11 November 1819 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bryncroes Downing
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creator QS:P170,Q6915789
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Women at the Quern and Luaghad with a view of Talyskir, on the Isle of Skye. Woodcut from Thomas Pennant's "A Tour in Scotland"


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  1. Tonnag at Dwelly's Gaelic Dictionary
  2. a b "Women's Highland Dress, Scottish Tartan Authority"
  3. Stìom at Dwelly's Gaelic Dictionary
  4. Muidse at Dwelly's Gaelic Dictionary
  5. http://c7.alamy.com/comp/HHW3F6/women-at-the-quern-left-and-the-luaghad-right-near-talisker-on-the-HHW3F6.jpg (original caption)

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