The making of clay pots

The making of clay pots

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The making of Clay Pots. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-23. 8054-8067).</i> The women collect earth and male grass. They mould the wet earth and work it into a pot, and when it is just dry they rub fat on the pot. They may also boil gum (|<i>gui</i>) and springbok blood in the pot.

1) p.8053v: |han≠kass'o observed this himself; the name of a plant found in Bushmanland which sticks to the fingers, 2) p.8054v: the earth from which the pots are made (27 December 1878), 3) pp.8058v &amp; 8060v: see <i>An owl believed to foretell the coming of the lion</i>, 4) p.8059v: the <i>Taaibosch,</i> which the people make bows from; |han≠kass'o's wife (Ssuobba-||ken) was taught to make pots by various female relations (their |xam names), 5) p.8061v: |xam names for white and black gum from the Doornboom (!khou), 6) p.8062v: the |xam term for nets made by ||kabbo's wife, !kuabba-an (or Oud Lies); a plant used in the making of an adhesive substance (!gabba), 7) p.8064v: words and sentences, including a term for 'blood porridge', 8) p.8065v: tasks performed by men and women; the |xam term for people who work well and badly; breaking bones using stones (also on p.8066v), 9) This story is found in Book VIII-23

story

14 December 1878 (started)

Artefact and dress

Custom and daily life

clay pots (the treatment of new), clay pots (are not struck with a stone when new), clay pots (are dried in the sun), clay pots (women teach each other to make), clay pots (how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make), clay pots (are rubbed and sealed with fat), clay pots (are smoothed with a !kau bone), clay pots ('working'), clay pots (blood is boiled inside), clay pots (are gum-coated), clay pots (the gum used for sealing them), clay pots (the making of), clay pots (the clay used for), clay pots (the making of), clay (pounding the earth for making), clay (which earth is used for making), clay (raw-), clay (the drying of), clay (the moulding of), clay (methods used in making), clay (moulded and smoothed with !kau bone), clay (newly dried), clay (and the making of clay pots), earth (the kind used to make clay for pots), earth (digging for), earth (mixed with male grass), earth (the pounding of), earth (called 'pot's hole'), earth (making the 'stick's hole'), earth (is pounded on skin), skin (springbok-), skin (used for pounding the earth to make pots), skin (and the making of clay pots), digging ('stick's hole'), digging ('pot's hole'), digging (for the earth used to make clay pots), work (performed by men and women), work (one who does so 'nicely'), work (the |xam terms for 'one who works badly' and 'one who works well'), work (and the making of clay pots and bows), bows (made from Taaibosch), bows (the wood used to make), bows (the making of clay pots and), fat (used to seal clay pots), fat (rubbed inside clay pots), fat (and the making of clay pots), gum (spooned with a springbok's horn spoon), gum (names of different), gum (used to coat and seal clay pots), gum (!khou's 'eyes'), gum (!khou 'dung'), gum (uses for), gum (from the Doornboom, or !khou tree), gum (and the making of clay pots), |han≠kass'o (names of his relations), |han≠kass'o (his personal history), |han≠kass'o (and the making of clay pots by his wife, Ssuobba-||ken), personal history (the names of |han≠kass'o's relations), personal history (how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make clay pots), springbok (blood boiled in clay pot), springbok (blood carried in a stomach), springbok (its horn is used as a spoon), springbok (and the making of clay pots), stone (used to break bones), stone (used in cooking to break bones), stone (and the making of clay pots), bone (the cooking and eating of), bone (breaking with a stone), bone (and the making of clay pots), plants (Taaibosch, used to make bows), plants (gum used in making pots, from Doornboom, or !khou trees), plants (and the making of clay pots), names (of trees, plants, bushes used in the making of clay pots and bows), names (of |han≠kass'o's relations), names (|han≠kass'o's wife was Ssuobba-||ken or Sara), names (|xam terms for 'one who works badly' and 'one who works well'), names (of the earth used to make clay pots), names (of different kinds of gum used in making of clay pots), names (of a bone used in making of clay pots), teaching (methods of making clay pots), teaching (women teach each other to make clay pots), teaching (how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make clay pots), education (about methods of making clay pots), education (of women who teach each other to make clay pots), education (how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make clay pots), pots (the making of clay), pots (the treatment of new), pots (are not struck with a stone when new), pots (are dried in the sun), pots (women teach each other to make), pots (how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make), pots (are rubbed and sealed with fat), pots (are smoothed with a !kau bone), pots ('working'), pots (blood is boiled inside), pots (are gum-coated), pots (the gum used for sealing them), pots (the making of), pots (the clay used for)

8054-8067