Mr G. Stow's picture no. 3 (the ||ken dance)

Mr G. Stow's picture no. 3 (the ||ken dance)

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>The Bushman Doctor or Sorcerer (who may be of either sex.) By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-20. 7757-7762, 7768-7774). Remarks upon sorcerers, their dress, etc. (in explanation of one of Mr Stow's copies of Bushman paintings), by Díä!kwãin. (L V.-10. 4750, 4755-4757.) A curious description of a dance and other doings of sorcerers was given in explanation of No. 3 of Mr Stow's copies of Bushman paintings (L V.-22. 5755-5775). Further details regarding sorcerers (suggested by Mr J.M. Orpen's copy of Bushman paintings - published in the </i>Cape Monthly Magazine<i> for July, 1874.) were also given by Díä!kwãin (L V.-25. 6008-6013).</i> An explanation of Stow's picture no. 3 showing a healer's ||<i>ken</i> dance which features a man and woman and a male steenbok. The man in front is the healer. He is dancing and teaching his art to the others.

1) See also <i>Sorcerers and the ||ken dance</i> and<i> Picture of Mr Orpen's, </i>2) This story is found in Book V-22

story

December 1875

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

rock art (no. 3 of Mr Stow's copies of Bushman paintings), rock art (explanation of Stow's picture no. 3), painting (rock), painting (Stow's picture no. 3), painting (of sorcerer's ||ken dance), painting (explanation of), sorcerers (and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance), sorcerers (or healers), sorcerers (show people how to dance), sorcerers (are 'great'), sorcerers (dance first), sorcerers (how they teach), sorcerers (their actions and work), sorcerers (learning to be a sorcerer), sorcerers (their dancing apparel and dress), sorcerers (wear steenbok), sorcerers (and the male steenbok), sorcerers (teach sorcery through dance), sorcerers (their dancing stick), sorcerers (are 'great men'), sorcerers (stand in front), dance (of sorcerers), dance (called the ||ken), dance (and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance), ||ken dance (of sorcerers), ||ken dance (teaching and learning), ||ken dance (and Stow's picture no. 3), ||ken dance (an explanation of), ||ken dance (and teaching sorcery), ||ken dance (the dress worn and apparel of), ||ken dance (and gender), ||ken dance (the movements and actions performed during), dress (sorcerers wear steenbok in their dance), dress (worn by sorcerers in their ||ken dance), dress (and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance), teaching (sorcerers teach sorcery through dance), teaching (learning to be a sorcerer and the ||ken dance), teaching (and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance), name (of the sorcerer's dance is ||ken), name (and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance), steenbok (and the ||ken dress), steenbok (sorcerers wear steenbok in the ||ken dance), steenbok (male), steenbok (and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance), stick (the sorcerer's dancing stick), stick (and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance), healer (sorcerer), healer (teaches others in the ||ken dance), healer (and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance)

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