"Bushman" notes

"Bushman" notes

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Ink on paper

c. 1904

A series of anecdotes by white farmers from the Calvinia, Murraysburg, Victoria West, and Vosburg districts (by Maria Wilman [1867-1957], first Director of the McGregor Museum?).

Van der Merwe (of Koppies Kraal, Calvinia), Piet Tachtpan (an old Bushman shot by van der Merwe's father and two other Boers), hole (the Tachtpan entrenched himself in a hole), rifles (the Boers), bowstring (the Bushman cut his finger tips by constantly pulling it), poisoned arrows (Van der Merwe's uncle was hit by one), Kafir (is a human beings according to Van der Merwe, but a Bushman is not), untamable (Bushman are), Spitzkop (a Van der Merwe farm in or around Calvinia), graveyard (a plundered Bushman graveyard at Spitzkop), Nel (Granaatboschkolk, Calvinia), vlei (near Granaatboschkolk), ostrich eggs (fragments around the edges of a vlei), Bushman skeletons (near the vlei closeby Granaatboschkolk), Murraysburg district (old stone commemorating 'three Kafir servants' killed by Bushmen with poisoned arrows), old stone (commemorating 'Kafir servants killed by Bushmen'), Van Heerden (of Ruigtevlei, Murraysburg)

A series of anecdotes by white farmers from the Calvinia, Murraysburg, Victoria West, and Vosburg districts entitled '[']Bushman' Notes' (MS). These are copies.