Missing the game

Missing the game

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

The women must not eat meat from the shoulder blades of the springbok, or the arrows will miss the game. This is called 'when we shoot our death'.

1) See also <i>!nanna-sse</i>, 2) This story is found in Book VIII-14

story

6 August 1878

Custom and daily life

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