Iziko_SAMLB_!nBook2_013

Iziko_SAMLB_!nBook2_013

Drawings, Watercolours, Things

ǃnanni

image

watercolour (multicolour)

3 June 1881

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1. An ant-hill, the base of which is at 1a., 2. ||gui-nnou* a large kind of fungus. (*The ||gui-nnou is eaten by my informant's people, & also by the Damaras, the Ovambo, and the Makoba. Eaten raw and roasted by the two former; the two latter eat it raw, and boiled. It is white, or light-coloured.), 3. !karre, a thorny plant, growing out of it.

plants and animals

custom and daily life

relations with others

animal (ants and ant hills), food (edible fungus), food (cooking), food (eaten by Damara, Ovambo, Makoba, !kun), food (Damara), food (fungus eaten by), Ovambo (fungus eaten by), Makoba (fungus eaten by), plant (edible, fungus, thorny)