The story of Tssi-!kuara |hin (the Lioness and her adopted daughter)

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Title

The story of Tssi-!kuara |hin (the Lioness and her adopted daughter)

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

<i>The Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuára-Ihin. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-25. 8084-8169, 8171 and 8172, 25. 8173-8176). </i>

Comments

1) This story was taken in January 1879 but translated in March and April 1897, 2) p.8084opp: |han≠kass'o heard this from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi) when a child, and also from his mother when older, 3) pp.8169v &amp; 8170: see

Type

story

Date

9 January 1879 (started, and finished on or about the 19 January)

Category

History (Early Race)

Keyword

Lioness ( and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

Lioness ( the place where she vanishes )

Lioness ( her head vanishes )

Lioness ( the place where her 'head's little piece shall become black' )

Lioness ( wound up in thong )

Lioness ( is not eaten because she is a person )

Lioness ( Biting-Torn-Away advises her husband on her doings )

Lioness ( people do not see her come )

Lioness ( her actions )

Lioness ( and the grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau )

Lioness ( and the timid child )

Lioness ( sings to the children at the water )

Lioness ( bites open a woman and takes her baby )

Lioness ( is killed by Biting-Torn-Away and her husband )

Lioness ( hunts the gemsbok )

Lioness ( raises Biting-Torn-Away as her own )

Lioness ( is a person of the Early Race )

Lioness ( her efforts to steal up on her adopted daughter's husband )

Early Race ( or the First Bushmen )

Early Race ( and the grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau )

Early Race ( !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau are trees and people )

Early Race ( and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

young man ( and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

young man ( Biting-Torn-Away advises him on the doings of the Lioness )

young man ( must not sleep )

young man ( must understand the Lioness properly )

young man ( stabs and kills the Lioness )

young man ( and his grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau )

young man ( is Biting-Torn-Away's husband )

young man ( is well educated )

young man ( rescues Biting-Torn-Away )

Biting-Torn-Away ( or Tssi-!kuara |hin, her story )

Biting-Torn-Away ( and her husband, the young man )

Biting-Torn-Away ( is the Lioness's adopted daughter )

Biting-Torn-Away ( her grandmothers are !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau )

Biting-Torn-Away ( was raised and nourished by the Lioness )

Biting-Torn-Away ( the Lioness killed her mother )

Biting-Torn-Away ( is clever )

Biting-Torn-Away ( became a grown-up girl )

Biting-Torn-Away ( protects her husband from the Lioness )

Biting-Torn-Away ( advises her husband on the doings of the Lioness )

Biting-Torn-Away ( helps kill her adopted mother, the Lioness )

trees ( !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau are also people )

trees ( and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

gemsbok ( hunted by the Lioness )

gemsbok ( killed by the adopted daughter's husband )

gemsbok ( its meat is placed in the thong that trapped the Lioness )

gemsbok ( and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

names ( of the adopted daughter of the Lioness )

names ( of the Lioness grandmothers, the trees )

Story Pages

8084-8172, 8173-8176

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