Tactics in springbok hunting

Tactics in springbok hunting

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

|han≠kass'o describes the tactics used in hunting springbok (referring to a numbered picture), in which ostrich feathers attached to sticks are stuck into the small bushes to resemble a person and divert the herd.

1) p.8066v: |han≠kass'o observed this himself, 2) p.8068v: on various lizards; teasing the <i>!khau</i> lizard (Tsatsi does not like these lizards to be teased), 3) p.8069v: the names of certain snakes and caterpillars, 4) 8070v: missing one's aim; names and descriptions of birds and a snake, 5) p.8071v: see<i> We do not utter a star man's name</i>; the |xam term for the sound an arrow makes when missing one's aim, 6) p.8072v: |han≠kass'o observed Tsa'tssi making brushes, 7) p.8073v: dreaming of successful and unsuccessful hunting; the |xam and !Koranna names of thongs; the name of a thorny plant (||kuain) burnt to smoke brushes, 8) p.8083v: see <i>Digging sticks used by men</i>, 9) See also <i>The preparation of feather brushes used in springbok hunting</i>, 10) This story is found in Book VIII-23

story

22 December 1878 (story finished on or about)

Custom and daily life

Artefact and dress

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