The Hebrides
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 500 objects from the Hebrides. These date from about 1400 to 1989. This collection comprises objects relating to archaeology, agriculture, textile production, arts and crafts, and domestic life. Objects include farming tools, such as potato hooks (crocans) and spades (cas chroms), domestic pottery and clothes. The collection includes artworks ranging from contemporary photographs to 19th century paintings. It also contains textiles, a number of Communion tokens from Skye and a fragment of a stone sculpture representing a Christian saint from Tiree. The Hebrides are a widespread and diverse group of islands off the west coast of Scotland.
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