Explanation of Mr G. Stow's pictures: 1 (habits of the hunting leopard)

Explanation of Mr G. Stow's pictures: 1 (habits of the hunting leopard)

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Dia!kwain comments on George Stow's copy of a Bushman painting (no. 1) which features figures and various animals (numbered). He describes the doings of the |xam with regard to hunting. Dia!kwain goes on to describe the habits of the hunting leopard.

1) p.5630v: the other name of the Orange River (<i>Tki</i>), given after sea water (which is cold), 2) p.5638v: includes the name of a family friend of Dia!kwain's mother who died after being injured by a leopard, 3) p.5639v: the |xam names of stones, 4) This story is found in Book V-21

story

21 December 1875 (started)

Plants and animals

Custom and daily life

rock art (explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1), painting (rock), painting (explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1), painting (picturing figures, lynx and ostrich), painting (Dia!kwain's explanation of), painting (and the habits of the hunting leopard), leopard (hunting leopard), leopard (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1), leopard (habits of the hunting leopard), hunting leopard (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1), hunting leopard (its nature and habits), hunting leopard ('seems to be ill'), hunting leopard (how it hunts), hunting leopard (does not run fast), hunting leopard ('is not a thing which chases things'), hunting leopard (hunts like a person), hunting leopard (lies in wait), hunting leopard (fears its back), hunting leopard (stalks like an old man), hunting leopard (methods of hunting and killing), hunting leopard (people kill it with stones), hunting (methods for catching and killing the hunting leopard), hunting (methods of the hunting leopard), hunting (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1), Orange River (its water), Orange River (and Stow's picture no. 1), Orange River (its other name), Orange River (and the animals that live therein that kill |xam), animals (that live in the Orange River and kill the |xam there), animals (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1), names (of animals that live in the Orange River and kill the |xam there), names (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1), names (Orange River's other name), ostrich (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1), lynx (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1)

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