The ||kuken

The ||kuken

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

The people take a long ostrich wing feather and cut off the root to make a<i> //kuken,</i> or barblet, that makes the arrow stick fast in an animal's flesh. The poison on the barblet dissolves off the barblet into the flesh.

1) See also <i>The ||kuken and ostrich feathers </i>and<i> Feathered arrows and poison </i>and<i> Arrow-making, 2</i>) p.8769v: |han≠kass'o was taught this by his maternal grandfather (Tsatsi) and experienced it himself; arrows with and without barblets, 3) p.8770v: the name for an arrow that is not poisoned, 4) p.8772v: the part of the animal's flesh that the barblet catches on; a man who died from a poisoned wound on his foot (see <i>Gemsbok hunting</i>), 5) This story is found in Book VIII-31

story

25 August 1879

Custom and daily life

Artefact and dress

arrows ( the making of )

arrows ( the name of one that has no poison )

arrows ( for springbok are clean and handsome )

arrows ( gemsbok's )

arrows ( ostrich's )

arrows ( for shooting springbok have no barblet )

arrows ( for shooting gemsbok and ostrich have a barblet )

arrows ( the poisoning of )

arrows ( the barblets, or ||kuken used to catch on the animal's flesh )

arrows ( and the use of roots of ostrich wing feathers )

ostrich feathers ( are cut and divided )

ostrich feathers ( are bound with sinew onto the arrow-shaft )

ostrich feathers ( wing-feather roots are used to make ||kuken, or barblets to catch on the animal's flesh )

ostrich feathers ( and the making of arrows )

||kuken ( or barblet used to catch on the animal's flesh )

||kuken ( teachings about the making of )

||kuken ( the making of using an ostrich wing-feather root )

||kuken ( the poisoning of )

poisoning ( methods of )

poisoning ( the poison dissolves off the barblet into the flesh )

poisoning ( of arrows for hunting )

poisoning ( of the arrow barblet, or ||kuken )

poisoning ( 'we poison downwards' )

hunting ( and the use of barbed and poisoned arrows )

hunting ( the different arrows used for springbok, gemsbok and ostrich )

gemsbok ( tactics in hunting )

gemsbok ( their arrows have barblets, or ||kuken )

ostrich ( tactics in hunting )

ostrich ( their arrows have barblets, or ||kuken )

ostrich ( their feathers used in making ||kuken or arrow-barblets )

springbok ( tactics in hunting )

springbok ( their arrows are clean and handsome )

springbok ( their arrows are those which have no barblets )

names ( a barblet on an arrow called ||kuken )

names ( of different arrows )

feather ( of the ostrich used to make barblets or ||kuken on arrows )

feather ( the making of barblets using an ostrich wing-feather root )

teachings ( about the making of arrows )

teachings ( about the making of barblets or ||kuken )

education ( about the making of arrows )

education ( about the making of barblets or ||kuken )

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