Baboons try to shoot people - means of preventing It

Baboons try to shoot people - means of preventing It

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

When shot, baboons will often try and throw the arrow back at the hunter and kill him too. When hunters see a baboon pull out an arrow and hold it in a certain way they must tell it that it is a 'girl's arrow', which will shame the baboon.

1) p.5916v: this story was told to Dia!kwain by his father (Xaa-ttin), 2) p.5920v: a list of |xam vocabulary (words and sentences), 3) See also

story

1 February 1876 (started)

Custom and daily life

Plants and animals

hunting ( of baboons )

hunting ( methods )

hunting ( observances )

hunting ( and shooting baboons )

hunting ( women's things and 'girl's arrows' )

hunting ( preventing baboons from trying to shoot people )

baboons ( and women's things )

baboons ( making them ashamed )

baboons ( their nature and habits )

baboons ( their actions when ashamed )

baboons ( how to make them drop an arrow )

baboons ( how they shoot people )

baboons ( how they shoot back an arrow fired at them )

baboons ( throw arrows back at the hunter )

baboons ( are ashamed of holding 'girl's arrows' )

baboons ( what to say to one who wants to shoot a person )

women ( baboons and women's things )

women ( baboons are ashamed of holding 'girl's arrows' )

women ( preventing baboons from trying to shoot people )

arrow ( preventing baboons from trying to shoot people )

arrow ( baboons are ashamed of holding 'girl's arrows' )

arrow ( baboons shoot back one fired at them )

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