Huts

Metadata

Title

Huts

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Contributor

!nanni (XI)

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Tamme (XII)

Summary

A brief account of the making of huts, or grass houses. The people put poles into the ground after digging holes. They fix the poles firmly into the holes, putting leaves in the spaces around the poles (or sticks). They cover these over with grass and sweep the floor of their huts.

Comments

1) p.9265v: Piet Lynx's !Ora or Koranna-Hottentot term for 'sweeping', 2) This story is found in Book XI & XII-4

Type

story

Date

27 January 1880

Category

Custom and daily life

Artefact and dress

Keyword

huts ( made by the !kun )

huts ( the making of )

huts ( houses )

huts ( grass )

huts ( the use and placement of poles )

!kun ( their methods of making houses )

houses ( grass )

houses ( huts made by the !kun )

Story Pages

9266

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