Cape Times Weekly Edition Special for the "Cape Times"

Cape Times Weekly Edition Special for the "Cape Times"

Newspaper Clippings and Pamphlets

newspaper clipping, scrapbook

Lucy Lloyd (scrapbook of clippings ), scrapbook (Lucy Lloyd's ), Dorothea Bleek (in article in Lucy Lloyd's clippings scrapbook ), Bleek and Lloyd household (in "Cape Times" article on Prieska Bushmen ), Prieska (|xam at ), kweiten ta||ken (Rachel )

"Bushman Hunting. A Trip into Bushman haunts. (See Art Supplement.) (Special for the "Cape Times".)"A "Cape Times" special correspondent gives a detailed account of her encounter with a group of |xam Bushmen in Prieska. In a "hunt" for Bushmen, the author accompanied an unnamed white Bushman-speaker to Bushmanland. At Prieska she found and interacted with some of 20 ragged Bushmen living in huts at a corner of the location. In this written piece the author describes an old Bushman woman there called Rachel, who relates her memories of what could only be the Bleek and Lloyd household. From these details one can surmise that Rachel is probably kweiten ta||ken. Rachel tells the author how she has been looking out for "Die Missus" (Dorothea Bleek) for a very long time. She tells her how 20 years ago a group of Bushmen was sent to the Cape by the government for various "violent squabbles ... with other natives". They were quartered in Salt River where they were very unhappy and sickly. However, some were allowed to visit a house where they were able to speak their language. Rachel says at the time the "Missus" was a small child in that house and watched them through a keyhole. On another later occasion the Salt River Bushmen were invited for a "feast" which Rachel and her husband attended with many of the other Bushmen. Shortly afterwards the Bushmen, including Rachel and her husband, left and returned to Bushmanland. The author goes on to describe some of the Bushman folk tales told (and enacted) by an old lady called Janikie. The author comments on the misfortunes that have befallen the Bushmen, evident in their squalid living situation at the location. She then describes the temperament, appearance, habits and possessions of the Bushmen there and refers to traditions they still maintain (but which the young people do not recall). The group organises a dance for the author and her companion, during which an old Bushman man plays the "ghora" and the "going going" and two old Bushman women take turns playing a drum. The author describes what one of the old Bushman ladies calls the "Pot" dance. The dance ends the author's "Bushman hunt" and she and her companion walk away, leaving the Bushmen dancing. Neither the clipping nor the inside cover of the scrapbook have been numbered and there is no writing on the clipping.