Baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu

Baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>The Baboons are also said to assemble together and play at the ≠gebbi-ggu, at night, like the Bushmen, singing like the Bushman women, and imitating the songs which they have heard the people sing. (L V.-25. 5998-6005).</i> When baboons live near people they watch them holding the <i>≠gebbi-ggu</i> and sing the same tune the women sing. One baboon sings for the others to follow and the people also do it this way.

1) p.5997v: Dia!kwain heard this story from his father (Xaa-ttin), 2) <i>≠gebbi-ggu</i> is spelt in various ways throughout the stories in which it occurs, for instance <i>≠gebbi-gu</i>, 3) pp.5997v-6001v: (missing p.5999v) (20 February) A continuation of the story of the Quagga (see<i> Quagga makes flour</i>) who ate <i>bitter bulle</i>, 4) p.6000v: Dia!kwain says that in nature |kaggen (the Mantis) 'is the eland's' and not the Hartebeest's, 4) p.6005v: some of the positions and movements of the dancers of the <i>≠gebbi-ggu</i>, 5) p.6006v: see J<i>an Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu</i> (see also p.6007v); the farmers call the <i>≠gebbi-ggu</i> the<i> |ki</i>, 6) See also <i>The story of the lions and the ostriches (when they were people) </i>and <i>Baboons and ≠gebbi-ggu</i>, 7) This story is found in Book V-25

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19 - 22 February 1876

Custom and daily life

Plants and animals

dance ( baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu )

game ( baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu )

≠gebbi-ggu ( baboons dance )

≠gebbi-ggu ( calling it )

≠gebbi-ggu ( is danced at night )

≠gebbi-ggu ( dancing it )

≠gebbi-ggu ( performing it )

≠gebbi-ggu ( baboons imitate the people's )

≠gebbi-ggu ( teaching of )

≠gebbi-ggu ( its doings )

≠gebbi-ggu ( songs and tunes of )

≠gebbi-ggu ( animal calls in )

≠gebbi-ggu ( and the imitation of animal calls )

≠gebbi-ggu ( roles of women and men in )

baboons ( dance the ≠gebbi-ggu )

baboons ( Baboons taught people the ≠gebbi-ggu )

baboons ( resemble and imitate people )

baboons ( their nature and habits )

baboons ( sing and dance the ≠gebbi-ggu )

baboons ( know the ≠gebbi-ggu )

baboons ( watch people hold the ≠gebbi-ggu )

teaching ( Baboons taught people the ≠gebbi-ggu )

songs ( and tunes of the ≠gebbi-ggu )

songs ( singing and dancing the ≠gebbi-ggu )

songs ( baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu )

animal ( calls imitated in the ≠gebbi-ggu )

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