The ||kuken

The ||kuken

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|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

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25 August 1879

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