Actions after death

Actions after death

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

When a !kun man dies, his things are not given to another person. This would make the deceased's wife cry and the people afraid ('we should tremble'). There follows an account of the interaction between the dead person's child (son) and wife.

1) p.9558v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu), 2) p.9567v: a woman carries her pot in her skin (of female |no' o), 3) See also <i>Dress after death</i> and <i>Customs at death and Burial</i> and <i>Burial (another account)</i>, 4) This story is found in Book XI &amp; XII-7

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30 July - 10 August 1880

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