More about |xue

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Title

More about |xue

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Contributor

!nanni (XI)

Summary

|xue pours water into his pot and carries it on a stick over his shoulder (he has attached an ox-head at the other end of the stick). He trips and wounds his knee and the pot breaks. He leaves the ox-head in the tree and departs for his mother's country with a bag of

Comments

1) p.9803v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu); !nanni made a clay model of the ox-head featured in his story (in the Iziko collection), 2) p.9807v: a reference to one of !nanni's drawings of 16 May 1881 (either Iziko_SAMLB_!nBook1_001 or 002) and some of the names of a bird, 3) p.9809v: see

Type

story

Date

8 - 20 May 1881

Category

Transformation

Keyword

|xue ( more about )

|xue ( searches for his people )

|xue ( cries for his people )

|xue ( fears the birds )

|xue ( the birds laugh at him )

|xue ( a thorn pierces his knee )

|xue ( his blood flows )

|xue ( departs for his mother's country )

|xue ( eats !naxane and shana )

|xue ( hides from his people )

|xue ( and the ox-head )

|xue ( breaks his pot and cries )

|xue ( carries the ox-head on a stick )

|xue ( hides the ox-head in a !gua tree )

|xue ( regards the Sun and his 'heart was comfortable' )

|xue ( puts the ox-head in a palm tree )

|xue ( sleeps in a hole )

|xue ( coughs )

|xue ( forgets the sun )

|xue ( and sunrise and sunset )

|xue ( his people search for him )

|xue ( merely lay and slept )

|xue ( is alone )

|xue ( his people stoop and hide from him )

|xue ( his people softly ran away from him, quite away )

|xue ( he fears his people )

|xue ( calls for an owl to fly away )

|xue ( his people were silent towards him )

|xue ( his people fear him )

|xue ( his people do not answer him )

|xue ( searches )

|xue ( and his things )

|xue ( cries )

|xue ( lay bare )

|xue ( his actions and doings )

|xue ( sleeps on the bare ground alone )

plants ( !naxane )

plants ( shana )

plants ( a !gua tree )

plants ( a palm tree )

plants ( !kun names of )

country ( |xue's mother's )

country ( more about |xue )

birds ( |xue fears )

birds ( laugh at |xue )

birds ( owl )

birds ( more about |xue )

ox ( -head and |xue )

ox ( more about |xue )

names ( !kun, of plants and trees )

pot ( |xue's )

pot ( more about |xue )

Sun ( |xue regards it and his 'heart was comfortable' )

heart ( Sun makes |xue's comfortable )

heart ( more about |xue )

Story Pages

9804-9817

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