About maidens and how they adorn young men with ||ka or 'rooi klip'

About maidens and how they adorn young men with ||ka or 'rooi klip'

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

!kweiten ta ||ken (Rachel) (VI)

<i>What a Maiden must eat and avoid (L II.-28. 2520-2524). How a New Maiden is treated, has been told in the Katkop dialect, by !kwéiten ta //ken (L VI.-2. 3997-4003); who also narrates the use made by Bushman Maidens of a kind of red stone (L VI.-1. 3970-3974).</i> Maidens use ||<i>ka</i> or <i>rooi klip </i>(or red haematite) to adorn the springs and the young men.

1) The page numbers in this book (VI-1) are duplicates of those in notebook IV-4, 2) See also <i>The Water's story: more about how maidens adorn young men</i>, 3) This story is found in Book VI-1

story

24 December 1874

New maidens

The Rain and Rain's water

Custom and daily life

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