Notes on rock painting copy no. 3

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

|han≠kass'o describes a group of people who are fighting each other (as they appear in a copy of rock painting no. 3). A man on horseback has stabbed another. The people ask the other people for tobacco and fear the white men.

Comments

1) p.7974v: see !guerriten-dde, 2) p.7976v: the |xam name for a bush similar to one seen on the slopes of Devil's Peak in November 1878, 3) See also Notes on rock painting copy no. 2 (!nu'sa and other groups) and Notes on rock painting copy no. 5, no. 6. and no. 7, 4) This story is found in Book VIII-22

Type

story

Date

10 November 1878

Category

History (personal)

Relations with others

Custom and daily life

Keyword

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