The |khu or Bushman soup-spoon

The |khu or Bushman soup-spoon

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The /khu, or Bushman soup spoon. This is a brush of native manufacture, the stem of which is also used to scratch the fire together. By |han≠kass'o (L VIII.-1. 6083 and 6084). </i>The |khu is made by the men who bind together the back hairs of the |gipp (Proteles, or aardwolf). There are also details about the springbok's 'paxwax', or |kuerri, in this account of the making of the soup spoon.

1) p.6083v: the springbok's |<i>kuerri,</i> or 'paxwax', is yellow and lies on the bone, 2) see also <i>The !au or shaped rib-bone, used by Bushmen in eating some kinds of food, </i>3) This story is found in Book VIII-1

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January 1878

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