Bloodletting

Metadata

Title

Bloodletting

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Contributor

!nanni (XI)

Tamme (XII)

Summary

An account of how women 'work', or cut themselves. Men cut (or bleed) themselves between the eyes with a knife. The blood is caught in a cup made of animal horn, held by another person.

Comments

1) p.9794v: see <i>Intelligent and foolish people</i>, 2) (7 April) see <i>Respecting and eating the |no</i>, 3) Da bears a cut between his eyes (see p.9448v), 4) This story is found in Book XI & XII-10

Type

story

Date

5 - 7 April 1881

Category

Custom and daily life

Keyword

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