|xue, ||namme, and the |nani, or, The |nani

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Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Contributor

Tamme (XII) (and possibly additions by !nanni)

Summary

An account of how two !kun (called |xue and ||namme) go into the house of a |nani. They sit down at the |nani's fire to warm themselves because it has been raining. A |nani child sees them and wakes his father and tells him that two !kun are warming themselves at the fire. The !kun men run away and the |nani father chases them and aims at them with his bow and arrow. The |nani throws an axe at the retreating men but misses them and |xue shoots and kills him instead.

Comments

1) p.9311: Tamme heard this from his father (||namme) who heard it from his father (Nakua), 2) Although the title says '|xe', presumably it refers to '|xue' who does appear later in the story to shoot the |nani, 3) p.9312v: the Ovaherero do not come into contact with the |nani because the |nani's country is too far off; the |nani do come into contact with the Makoba and go on or in their boats (it isn't clear for what purpose), 4) This story is found in Book XI & XII-4

Type

story

Date

11 February 1880 (given on or about)

Category

Relations with others

Custom and daily life

Keyword

Tamme (his father's name is ||namme), Tamme (his experience with the |nani), Tamme (his description of the |nani), |nani (their appearance), |nani (a description of them), |nani (are tall and black), |nani (have guns which resemble them), |nani (resemble the Ovaherero), |nani (Tamme does not understand their language), |nani (their speech, or language), |nani (and two !kun called |xue and ||namme), |nani (one is killed by |xue), |nani (one tries to catch and kill the two !kun), |xue (|xe), |xue (kills the |nani), |xue (and ||namme, and the |nani), !kun (their relations with the |nani), !kun (their relations with others), names (of peoples in !kun country), names (of Tamme's relations), names (the Ovaherero), names (the |nani), language (spoken by the |nani), language (understood by Tamme), peoples (of Damaraland), peoples (found in !kun country), peoples (the Ovaherero), peoples (the |nani)