An account of the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

The rain's 'things' (or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau) of |han≠kass'o's country have large bodies and dwell in water; some of them kill people when they bite them.

Comments

1) p.6074v: see The |khuken-|u |unu, 2) see also Remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV Collected By Mr H.C. Schunke, and deposited in the Grey Library, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-1

Type

story

Date

17 January 1878 (started)

Category

The Rain and Rain's water

Keyword

rain's things (or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau), rain's things (water's things), rain's things (one called |khuken-|u |unu), rain's things (the names of), rain's things (its animals), rain's things (bite and kill people), rain's things (the colour of), rain's things (the actions of), rain's things (are not eaten), rain's things (the treatment of), rain's things (the consequences of eating), rain's things (prohibitions relating to), rain's things (avoidance behaviour relating to), rain's things (customs relating to), rain's things (are poisonous), rain's things (a description of), rain's things (live in the water), rain's things (are water's things), rain's things (of |han≠kass'o's country), rain (the Rain), rain (!khwa), rain (its things, or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau), water (water's things), water (rain's things live in), names (of the water's and the rain's things), food (eating rain's things prohibited), food (the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau), food (the rain's things are poisonous), animals (the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau), respect (for the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau), poison (the rain's things are poisonous), !khwa (the Rain), !khwa (the rain-bull or waterbull), !khwa (and the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau)