The little porcupine

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

The people wait for the porcupines to return to their hole and kill them as they return, including the female porcupine who returns last. Different members of the family get given meat from different porcupines and parts of porcupines.

Comments

1) p.7396v: men and women carry loads tied on their backs, 2) See also <i>Distribution of porcupine meat</i> and <i>Porcupine hunting</i>, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-16

Type

story

Date

5 September 1878 (started)

Category

Custom and daily life

Keyword

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