The Mackenzie collection

the sons and daughter of the late H H Mackenzie, factor of the North Uist estates. Their father had formed the collection in Uist between about 1880 and 1934. Two handwritten lists arrived with the collection, one being a summary list written by Mr H H Mackenzie of antiquities in his house at 37 Buckstone Terrace, Edinburgh, the other a receipt addressed to Mrs McNeil, Newton House, Lochmaddy, for various antiquities loaned to the International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1888. The two lists appear to be complementary, though neither is very explicit. Their evidence suggests that much of the material in the Mackenzie collection is indeed that formerly belonging to Mrs McNeil, loaned by her to the Glasgow Exhibition and listed in the catalogue of that Exhibition, The Book of the Bishop's Castle, 1888 (hereinafter referred to as BBC). Her antiquities are described on the receipt and in the catalogue in similar terms. They comprised five stone axes, etc (BBC 22, nos 12-16; not with the material given to the museum) and seven boxes of assorted objects (BBC 28, nos 74-80) of which it seems all or most, including the original glass-lidded boxes, are preserved in the Mackenzie collection, though few individual objects can now be separated from others added by Mackenzie

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