The collecting of ostrich eggs

The collecting of ostrich eggs

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

A man collects ostrich eggs in a sack to take home to his wife. She breaks them open with a stone, then places sticks into the holes she has made, stirs up the inside of each egg and pours them out into a cooking pot which she places on the fire.

1) Note on the inside of the back cover of this notebook: 'Finished correcting Sept 15/71 from Jantje Toorm himself', 2) This story is found in Book II-1

story

18 March - 29 May 1871 (given on or about)

Custom and daily life

ostrich eggs (collecting), ostrich eggs (preparing), ostrich eggs (cooking), ostrich eggs (eating), sack (springbok skin), sack (for collecting ostrich eggs), food (cooking and eating of ostrich eggs)

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