The |xam and the hyena

The |xam and the hyena

Wilhelm Bleek notebooks

|a!kunta (Stoffel) (I)

Youths hunt and kill hyena and then the people at home make soup out of their flesh. The people sleep after eating.

1) p.315v: an insert (pasted in) with 'Cape Colony' stamp addressed to 'Dr Bleek, Mowbray', 2) This story is found in Book I

story

17 May 1871 (started)

Custom and daily life

hyena (|xam eat), hyena (the hunting of), hyena (is made into soup), hyena (preparation of), hyena (killing of), hyena (cooking of), hyena (young boys hunt), hyena (the ground of), hyena (the house of), cooking (of hyenas by the |xam), cooking (soup is made of hyena flesh), food (|xam eat hyena), food (soup made of hyena flesh), soup (made of hyena flesh), hunting (of hyena by |xam youths), hunting (the |xam and the hyena)

316-320