Words and sentences

Words and sentences

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

a!kunta (Stoffel) (I)

Words and sentences given by |a!kunta (Stoffel). Included are copies, translated in January 1871, of some of the material collected in Lloyd's first notebooks. There is a short account of |a!kunta's wife, who waits for him in his house and cannot eat springbok (p.137). There is an incantation or verse about 'Kleine Jackals' (Lloyd says 'The Bushmen do not sing the jackal') and a note on how they are caught in their holes (p.122v).

1) Date on p.119opp: 19 November 1870; p.119: 30 July 1871, 2) This story is found in Book I-1 and I-2

story

16 January - August 1871

Words and sentences

Poetry

dictionary ( dictionary )

words and sentences ( words and sentences )

vocabulary ( |xam )

personal history ( |a!kunta and his wife )

verse ( or incantation to 'Kleine Jackals' )

poem ( or incantation to 'Kleine Jackals' )

song ( or incantation to 'Kleine Jackals' )

incantation ( or verse to 'Kleine Jackals' )

1-77, 119-124, 126-132, 134-137, 159