The ǂnuturu

The ǂnuturu

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|hanǂkass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

ǂnuturu dances for the children and sings to herself until the people return. She takes off her 'face's horns' and the people see that her face underneath is white and beautiful. The hunters give her the fatty springbok breasts to eat and their own wives get lean meat.

1) p.6785v: |hanǂkass'o heard this from his mother (|xabbi-an), 2) p.6789v: see <i>!haken, a food resembling 'Bushman rice'</i>, 3) p.6798v: the Dutch term meaning 'beautifully white', 4) pp.6813v-6815v: see <i>Kinds of rain</i>, 6) This story is found in Book VIII-9

story

4 May 1878 (started)

History (Early Race)

ǂnuturu (is not a proper person), ǂnuturu (asks when people return), ǂnuturu (her dancing ring), ǂnuturu (and children), ǂnuturu (the actions of), ǂnuturu (is an enchantress), ǂnuturu (was a woman), ǂnuturu (lifts and takes off her 'face'), ǂnuturu (her face), ǂnuturu (her appearance), ǂnuturu (deceives), ǂnuturu (eats fat), ǂnuturu (is fed scraps), ǂnuturu (gets given springbok's breasts), ǂnuturu (dances), ǂnuturu (hides her horn), ǂnuturu (hides her true form), ǂnuturu (men love her and want to marry her), ǂnuturu (is beautiful), ǂnuturu (a person of the Early Race), springbok (its breast is fat), springbok (parts eaten), springbok (and the ǂnuturu), springbok (its heart), food (given to wives), food (given to a beautiful woman), food (and !haken), food (eaten by ǂnuturu), food (eating springbok-breast), food (eating springbok backbone), food (eating springbok heart), people (names for different groups of), names (for different groups of people), names (for different foodstuffs), names (and the ǂnuturu), dance (of the ǂnuturu), marriage (men love and want to marry the ǂnuturu)

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