Killing a wife by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed

Killing a wife by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

!kun husbands kill their wives by placing a poisoned arrow (a |nu'bbo) upright in her bed. The husband tells the crying mother to stop crying, as his actions were justified. The mother-in-law says she will mourn her daughter for many days and will not listen to a 'stranger' who has killed her daughter. The husband says that he will kill his mother-in-law if she does not consent to go away.

1) p.9838v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu) as well as his maternal grandfather (|k'on'ta), 2) p.9844v: the dead woman's mother respects her son-in-law's name and does not say it, but addresses him as 'stranger' or 'different' people, 3) p.9845v: (26 May 1881) terms of address for different members of the family (among siblings), 4) This story is found in Book XI & XII-10

story

21 May 1881 (started)

Custom and daily life

family ( and uxoricide )

family ( the husband is a stranger, or a 'different person' )

family ( the !kun structure of )

family ( wives collect food to feed their husbands )

family ( and marrying 'another country's man' )

family ( and wife-killing )

family ( and the treatment of women )

family ( and the treatment of the wife )

family ( and the treatment of mothers-in-law )

family ( terms of address for members of, siblings, in-laws )

death ( and uxoricide )

death ( the mother mourns her daughter )

death ( killing a wife )

death ( of the wife killed by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed )

death ( uxoricide )

death ( wife-killing )

wife ( and uxoricide )

wife ( attitudes towards )

wife ( killing, using a poisoned arrow in her bed )

wife ( treatment of )

address ( terms of address for in-laws )

address ( and respect in the family )

respect ( terms of )

respect ( and address used for in-laws or men )

respect ( for son-in-laws )

respect ( in the !kun family )

arrow ( name of )

arrow ( called |nu'bbo )

arrow ( killing a wife with a poisoned and wooden one )

uxoricide ( killing a wife by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed )

women ( treatment of wives )

women ( uxoricide )

women ( killing a wife by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed )

name ( used by the !kun for a poisoned arrow )

name ( and terms of address for in-laws )

husband ( who killed his wife by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed )

husband ( treatment of the wife's mother )

mourning ( by her mother, of the wife killed by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed )

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