D2.6.61: Notes for preface

D2.6.61: Notes for preface

Publications and Reports

Specimens of Bushman folklore (1911) was authored by the comparative linguist Wilhelm HI Bleek and his self-taught sister-in-law, Lucy C Lloyd (the editor). With an introduction by George McCall Theal, it is the culmination of Bleek and Lloyd's 'Bushman researches', with testimonies painstakingly gathered, transcribed, and translated by the authors with the cooperation of many language instructors. Some, but not all, narratives are aetiological. Taking from the |xam and !kun (to a lesser extent) texts, it presents eighty-seven legends, myths, poems, songs, botanical knowledge, hunting practices (observances), mysticism (divination and sorcery), "other" traditional stories, and social history in the now extinct |xam and endangered !kun languages.

Ink on paper

Handwritten notes for 'Specimens of Bushman folklore's' preface, along with printed weather readings.

Preface (notes for), Specimens of Bushman folklore (notes for its preface), weather readings (meteorological, phenological, and faunal data with compatible activities)