Medicines taken by the ill

Medicines taken by the ill

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

≠kasin (Klaas Katkop) (IV)

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kabbo (Jantje) (II)

<i>Different Bushman Medicines; where found; and their uses. Only the names of these medicines are given in Bushman, and the remarks respecting them in English, after ≠kásin (L IV.-1. 3425-3440). These specimens were found in the hut of a Bushman sorcerer, and were kindly furnished for identification by Mr. J Gibb. //kábbo's names for the same specimens, with his remarks (in English only), are in a separate paper of 7 folio pages, to which ≠kásin's notes have been also briefly added, in red ink. </i>A series of numbered entries describing the making of preparations from, as well as the use and collection of, various plants and insects for the treatment of a variety of ailments by the |xam.

1) Insert pasted inside the front cover of Book IV-1: a note to ask the informants whether 'Hottentots' (from ≠kasin) do agricultural work and use a digging stick or whether (from ||kabbo) the |xam may hunt on each other's land; also an insert dictated by ||kabbo on the collecting of a grub by 'Grass Bushmen', which is then made into something called |<i>kai ka !gaoken</i>, probably a poison or medicine to be used with caution, 2) See also the insert pasted inside the back cover of Book IV concerning various medicinal plants - their names, their uses and where they are found, 3) Date on p.3439: 4 November, 4) p.3437v: possibly the name of a river or stream near ≠kasin's place (<i>!kuirri</i>) where a certain plant grows, 5) This story is found in Book IV-1

story

3 - 4 November 1873

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

Plants and animals

plants ( medicinal )

plants ( names of )

medicinal plants ( 'working' them )

medicinal plants ( found at ≠kasin's place )

medicinal plants ( where they are found )

medicinal plants ( the digging for and collection of )

medicinal plants ( the names of in Dutch and |xam )

medicinal plants ( a description of )

medicinal plants ( different uses for )

medicinal plants ( and healing )

healing ( medicinal plants used in )

healing ( methods of )

place ( ≠kasin's )

place ( the medicinal plants found there )

place ( insects found there )

medicine ( used by |xam )

medicine ( taken externally or internally )

medicine ( making of, and time of day )

medicine ( making of, and gender )

medicine ( the preparation of )

medicine ( the vessels used for preparation of )

medicine ( plants used as )

medicine ( insects used as )

women ( and making medicine )

men ( and making medicine )

work ( women's and men's )

work ( prohibitions regarding )

insects ( and healing )

insects ( used in making of medicine )

insects ( found at ≠kasin's place )

≠kasin ( medicinal plants found at his place )

vessels ( used for preparation of of medicines )

illness ( and the medicines taken by the |xam )

illness ( and the making of medicines )

illness ( and the medicinal plants found at ≠kasin's place )

names ( of medicinal plants )

names ( of plants found at ≠kasin's place )

names ( of an insects used in making of medicine )

3425-3440