The collecting of ostrich eggs

The collecting of ostrich eggs

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

kabbo (Jantje) (II)

A man collects ostrich eggs in a sack to take home to his wife. She breaks them open with a stone, then places sticks into the holes she has made, stirs up the inside of each egg and pours them out into a cooking pot which she places on the fire.

1) Note on the inside of the back cover of this notebook: 'Finished correcting Sept 15/71 from Jantje Toorm himself', 2) This story is found in Book II-1

story

18 March - 29 May 1871 (given on or about)

Custom and daily life

ostrich eggs ( collecting )

ostrich eggs ( preparing )

ostrich eggs ( cooking )

ostrich eggs ( eating )

sack ( springbok skin )

sack ( for collecting ostrich eggs )

food ( cooking and eating of ostrich eggs )

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