Notebooks
Categories
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Artefact and dress
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Celestial bodies and aeroscopy
- !gaunu
- A note on the First Bushmen
- A prayer addressed to the Moon, and another version of the Moon and Hare story
- A small insect called !ka !karro, said to resemble the Moon, used by Bushmen women to ascertain if the men will bring food home
- A song sung by the star !gaunu, especially by the Bushman women
- A story about another Star
- A white substance and the Moon
- About the Daybreak Star
- Address or prayer to the star Canopus and the star Sirius
- Aquilae's water
- Burial (another account)
- Children throwing up the Sun (in this dialect)
- Clouds and wind
- Cuts to be made on a bow when a baboon has been killed
- Day's Heart
- Dia!kwain plays the bow in a thunderstorm, or, The thunderstorm
- Eclipse of the sun
- Falling stars
- Falling stars
- Fragment of the story of the old woman sending the children to throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky (given by Blaitje Snell)
- How Xaa-ttin asked (or prayed to) the dead magician (named !nuin-|kui-ten) for rain, which was speedily bestowed
- Jantje Tooren told by his father not to look towards the Moon as it comes out
- Moon and Hare: the origin of death
- Moon and Sun and Hares
- Moon and little Hare (includes: The Moon's speech)
- Moon and stars: an incantation
- More about the Day's Heart star: what he says to his daughter
- Names for the star Canopus
- Names of stars
- Names of stars: given by ≠kasin and Dia!kwain
- Prayer to a star
- Prayer to the young moon
- Prayers to the Moon
- Rainmaking, when the wind is in the north
- Sirius and Canopus
- Some of the stars (their names)
- Stars
- Stars
- Stars and flowers
- Stars and game
- Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain
- Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain
- Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin
- Sun and Moon story
- Sun, Moon and stars
- Sun, Moon, and stars
- The !ho
- The !kh'o: a blue mist which resembles smoke
- The Day's Heart star
- The Day's Heart star child
- The Lion becomes a star
- The Lion star
- The Lion star and other stars
- The Mantis makes an eland
- The Mantis, his wife and their things
- The Moon
- The Moon and Sun (another version of The Sun which pierces the Moon with its knife by ||kabbo)
- The Moon and the Hare (origin of death)
- The Moon and the Hare and |xue
- The Moon becomes angry at the children's laughing at him: an explanation of the eclipse of the moon
- The Moon not to be laughed at
- The Moon pierced by the Sun
- The Moon seeking his wife, ||ko'on
- The Moon, not to be looked at, when game is shot
- The Sun pierces the full Moon with his knife
- The children of the First Bushmen (who preceded the Flat Bushmen in their country) throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky, or, The children of the !khwe |na ssho !ke, ordered by their mothers, throw the sleeping Sun into the sky (a second version of the story)
- The crying of the wind tells beasts of prey where to find people
- The east wind
- The girl who made the Milky Way, by throwing ashes into the sky
- The great Star !gaunu, which singing named the stars
- The hare and the moon
- The moon and the hare
- The moon, the sun and the stars
- The name of a star in the Katkop dialect: the Hare's star
- The new maiden who threw !huin into the sky; which became stars, and the wood ashes which were upon it, the Milky Way
- The north wind
- The origin of the Moon
- The south wind
- The story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara, or, !ko'-g !nuin-tara and the Day's Heart star
- The two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross
- The west wind
- The |kaggen who took |kammanga's shoe, and turned it into an eland
- Want of rain
- What is done by the Bushmen (men and women) in an eclipse of the sun
- What the 'Bushman rice' does when the ||xo hai stars come out
- What the children say to the Moon as it rises making it angry
- What the stars say
- Wind and stars
- Wind, weather and springbok hunting
- Words and sentences (including the names of stars)
- Young moon's story
- |kaggen (the Mantis) and the Moon (version 1)
- |kaggen (the Mantis) and the Moon: creation of the latter (version 2)
- |xannan |xannan
- |xannan |xannan and the wind
- ≠nabbe ta !nu (Corona Australis)
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Custom and daily life
- !gaunu
- !guerriten-dde
- !gweh or Malkop Gift (poisons)
- !haken, a food resembling 'Bushman rice'
- !kuppen (imitation of the sound of horses)
- !nana-an: the custom of calling to the wounded springbok
- !nanna-sse
- !nanna-sse (hunting observances)
- !nanni's drawing of the |kui
- !nu !numma-!kuiten
- !nuin-|kui-ten (who was a sorcerer or magician)
- A Bushman belief about a moth called |goro, the coming of which to the fire at night foretells the slaying of an ostrich (or the finding of ostrich eggs) by one of the men
- A certain snake, which, by lying upon its back, announces a death in the family; and must not, in these circumstances, be killed
- A fragment about the animal clicks, and ways of speaking |xam
- A fragment of an account of a ceremony performed by Bushman maidens in order that their father's dogs should hunt well
- A fragment of the story of the early morning
- A girl does not eat porcupines' tails
- A great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken who did not understand Dutch
- A lion's story, or, The child who saved her sleeping parents from the lion
- A man is wounded by another by accident when out after springbok
- A man respects his wife's mother
- A mother's prohibitions with regard to the hartebeest and her child
- A necklace of reed used to cure a little child's cold
- A note about the porcupine
- A person who takes snuff: tobacco eats up his brains
- A presentiment
- A root used for curing ill people
- A small insect called !ka !karro, said to resemble the Moon, used by Bushmen women to ascertain if the men will bring food home
- A snake found near a grave
- A song of the |kam-ssin !ku (or Sun Bushmen)
- A waterpool called |uha
- About 'Bushman rice'
- About Ssho |oa: where to be found
- About locusts
- About maidens and how they adorn young men with ||ka or 'rooi klip'
- About new maidens (continued from Bleek's Book XXVII: p.2618)
- About poison
- About snoring
- About sorcerers
- About sorcerers: their death, their snoring work, earthquakes and the rain
- About the 'Toornan': the 'Bushman witchdoctor'
- About the lion who carries away and kills a man and the search for the lost man (a story of common life)
- Actions after death
- An eruptive illness called !hamman-xu
- An ignorant man digs up Ssho |oa and the consequences of his actions
- An illustration of the use of ddabba-i
- An ostrich eggshell, left open, will attract snakes
- An owl believed to foretell the coming of the lion
- Animals eaten by the !kun
- Arrow-making
- Arrowheads
- Avoidance behaviour relating to lions
- Avoiding where the jackal or the hyena have passed water
- Baboon's ss'o |a and hair used as charms against illness
- Baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu
- Baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu
- Baboons know our names
- Baboons should not be spoken with
- Baboons speak Bushman, and have wives
- Baboons try to shoot people – means of preventing It
- Beating a stone on the ground
- Birds and bird's eggs
- Birds await the death of a thing
- Bloodletting
- Burial
- Burial (another account)
- Burial; also avenging a death
- Butterflies and !giten
- Certain kinds of food, said not to be eaten by adults
- Children do not eat jackal's hearts
- Children do not say the lion's name at night
- Chippings made by Dia!kwain's father (before the time of the 'Boers')
- Clouds and wind
- Concerning apparitions (or How, when the first wife of Dia!kwain was buried, those returning to their homes saw the apparition of a little child)
- Crows and a note on secretary birds
- Curing illness (and the trance dance)
- Cursing
- Custom observed with Bushman children, when too young to walk
- Customs at death
- Cuts to be made on a bow when a baboon has been killed
- Cuts to be made on a bow when a hyena has been killed
- Dead people are those who rode the Rain
- Destroying the sneeze or kkoroken
- Dia!kwain explains his mother's 'little name'
- Difference between |xam and European methods of articulation
- Digging for porcupine
- Digging sticks used by men
- Distribution of porcupine meat
- Doings of the Mantis when the eland has been wounded
- Doings of the springbok and springbok hunting
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- Dress after death
- Dust signals, or, A man who becomes faint from the heat of the sun on his way home, throws up earth into the air, so that those at home may see the dust, and come to help him
- Earthquake
- Eating hare's meat
- Eating the springbok's tongue-tip
- Edible plants found near water
- Elephants (eating their hearts)
- Explanation of !hau-!hau (a hunting charm)
- Explanation of Mr G. Stow's pictures: 1 (habits of the hunting leopard)
- Explanation of Mr G. Stow's pictures: no. 2
- Falling stars
- Falling stars
- Feathered arrows and poison
- Flat Bushmen's' poison
- Food eaten by Bushmen (five types of berries and roots)
- Food eaten by the !kun
- Food eaten by the !kun
- Food of the Bushmen, found in their country
- Food that ≠kasin says he does not eat
- Further ceremonies in cutting up eland
- Further particulars regarding the purification or cleansing (|koa)
- Gambro or |kui and its ill-effects
- Gargling
- Gemsbok hunting
- Grass in Bushmanland that resembles brushes
- Greetings among the Bushmen (and times of the day)
- Habits of jackals
- Habits of porcupines
- Hai ||umm
- Healers (sorcerers) and the ||ken dance
- Horns burnt for rain
- How Korannas and the |xam cut themselves in order to shoot well
- How an owl (by its conduct) made |a-kkumm think that danger must be at hand and how she was sought for by a lion, which spoke to her in a man's voice
- How children are carried
- How the Bushman women show their admiration for the horse
- How the approach of a commando is foretold by the mist
- How the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind became the Porcupine; followed by various remarks about porcupines
- How the prepared springbok's ears are tied on
- How to get rid of the evil influence of bad dreams
- How women fear the new Ssho |oa which has just been brought home
- Hunting animals with dogs
- Hunting hare
- Hunting hares
- Huts
- Jackal clouds
- Jan Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu
- Jantje Tooren told by his father not to look towards the Moon as it comes out
- Karosses must not be beaten upon the ground, for fear of bad consequences
- Killing a wife by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed
- Leopard hunting: the fatal adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion, and advice about leopard-hunting
- Life after death
- Lion eats all things
- Lions
- Making fire with two pieces of sticks; and tinder-making
- Manner of carrying firewood
- Mat sieves
- Means of defending a dog from baboons
- Medicines taken by the ill
- Men who run away fear greatly (on courage and cowardice)
- Method of cooking and eating porcupine
- Missing the game
- Mixing arrow poisons
- Mode of addressing rain
- Mode of eating porcupine
- Moons' (months) possess their names
- More about sorcerers
- More about the Day's Heart star: what he says to his daughter
- Moths coming to the fire of Bushmen by night foretell the killing of certain kinds of game
- Mr G. Stow's picture no. 3 (the ||ken dance)
- Names and descriptions of bags, nets and things worn
- Names for certain winds
- Names of plants and animals and notes on their use
- Names of seasons
- Names of stars: given by ≠kasin and Dia!kwain
- Note on lizards
- Notes (to Children do not eat jackal's hearts)
- Notes on chippings, or, Chipping no. 4
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 2 (!nu'sa and other groups)
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 3
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 5, no. 6. and no. 7
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 9
- Old woman's song (2nd version)
- On the 'Children of shortness' (the 'Grass Bushmen')
- On women's hunting or |kua
- Ostriches and barter
- Parents instruct children how to get food, or, How D.H's father and mother instructed their children to get food
- Parts of the ostrich not to be eaten by children
- People fear the darkness's rain
- Picture of Mr Orpen's
- Pieces of wood for divining, or |xu
- Poison of the puffadder
- Poisons and a description of gathering them
- Porcupine hunting
- Porcupine hunting
- Porcupine hunting: we go to sit waiting for a porcupine and some of the habits of the porcupine
- Prayers to the Moon
- Purification after shooting a person
- Rain washes out a dead man's footsteps
- Regarding houses
- Relationships
- Remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV Collected By Mr H.C. Schunke, and deposited in the Grey Library
- Respect for the mantis
- Respecting and eating the |no
- Respecting the eland
- Salutations to the sun and greetings to others
- Seeking springbok
- Signs made on leaving a place
- Sitting in the shade
- Skinning and cutting
- Sleeping in ashes
- Snakes and spirits of the dead
- Sneezing
- Sneezing: and searching for wives and families
- Sneezing: to be avoided when game is shot
- Song of the !kan ||ka ||karashe
- Song of the sho sho
- Sorcerers are like lions
- Sorcerers shoot with invisible arrows, causing illness
- Springbok bones
- Springbok hunting
- Springbok possess magic arrows
- Ssa ka Kumm (the eland's story)
- Ssauken (a game)
- Ssho |oa or ||karruken-||karruken or |u ssho a
- Stars and death
- Stars and game
- Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin
- Story of ≠kasin's hunting adventures
- Swallows
- Tactics in springbok hunting
- Tamme's family and their understanding of the languages spoken in their country
- Terms of relationship
- The !au or shaped rib-bone used by Bushmen in eating some kinds of food
- The !gixa (sorcerer) |kaunu
- The !ho
- The !ho and Ko-boken
- The !kabbi: a bird which has white legs and is eaten
- The !kh'o: a blue mist which resembles smoke
- The Brachycerus used as a means of cure for little children; the same insect not used again when another child is ill
- The Bushmen's presentiments of things that are going to happen
- The Ichneumon's discourse to the Mantis
- The Mantis and the hunting of eland
- The Moon
- The Moon not to be laughed at
- The Moon, not to be looked at, when game is shot
- The Phyllomorpha paradoxa (or withered-leaf insect)
- The Water's story: more about how maidens adorn young men
- The adhesive substance (|kwae) used in arrowmaking and its preparation for use
- The adventure of |khui- |a with a family of baboons
- The advice that Dia!kwain's mother gave him about the tortoise, i.e. that he must not leave one, if he saw it, but must take it home
- The approach of strangers makes Bushmen sleepy
- The avoidance of the name of the lion
- The children taught to use another name for the lion
- The collecting of ostrich eggs
- The coming of the Mantis [the mantis] to sit upon the quiver of the Bushman father at home foretells the shooting of a hartebeest
- The consequences of a woman's smelling fresh Ssho |oa scent
- The crying of the wind is an evil omen
- The crying of the wind tells beasts of prey where to find people
- The cutting and piercing of parts of the body
- The digging out of 'Bushman rice'
- The dream
- The drought which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve
- The east wind
- The eating of baboons
- The eating of jackal
- The effect of a new maiden's gaze
- The explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta (or Snore-White-Lying)
- The father-in-law and the mother-in-law
- The giving of nicknames
- The hartebeest and the eland belong to the Mantis
- The hunting, preparation and eating of ostrich, 'chiansbok', springbok, khoran, hare and jackal
- The hyena
- The little porcupine
- The locust bird or ||kerri
- The lynx; its flesh eaten by Bushmen, but not by the Bushman women; the manner of hunting it, etc.
- The making of a needle from a springbok's foreleg
- The making of clay pots
- The man carries away the ostrich to his home
- The manner in which a man who is being cleansed, is prepared for drinking water
- The manner of dividing fat
- The marking of arrows
- The names of a few places in Bushmanland, told to me long ago by Jantje Tooren and put in here for safety
- The names of animals
- The new maiden who ate the ostrich marrow from the thigh-bone of the ostrich without the knowledge of her people
- The north wind
- The old clay pot
- The old woman and the hyena (|a!kunta's version which he heard from his mother)
- The old woman and the hyena (||kabbo's version)
- The owl and the black crow
- The pieces of wood used by the Bushmen of !nanni's country for divining future events
- The piercing of ears
- The place to which people go after death, and various ways of dying and being killed
- The power over ostriches possessed by Dia!kwain's uncle, |uherre or 'Blaitje'
- The preparation of feather brushes used in springbok hunting
- The preparation of the drum; ears of springbok are tied to the feet of the men who dance
- The preparation of the springbok's ears
- The rain sorcerer ||kunn; two of ||kunn's children
- The rainmaker ||kunn
- The slaying of a white springbok will cause the other springbok to disappear
- The song of the !ke tsa'ba (a bird)
- The song of the !korro-ssin !ku (or Pit-making Bushmen)
- The song of the Mother Rhinoceros
- The south wind
- The spider
- The springbok's story
- The story of the Lions and the Ostriches
- The story of the widow of the man killed while hunting, and her return to her own family or The widow's story
- The tale of a wise person or sorceress, what she said, when she talked with us
- The telephonus (!koroken !koroken)
- The treatment of the 'growing' girl
- The treatment of thieves
- The use of the !goin-!goin, followed by an account of a Bushman dance
- The west wind
- The widow married by her dead husband's next brother
- The woman eaten by Baboons: a fragment of the account
- The young man who was changed into stone, by the glance of a new maiden
- The |goo or ≠gebbi-gu
- The |ka kau: a little bird said by the Bushmen, by whom it is not eaten, to laugh at the wildcat
- The |khoro and the ≠gue-||na
- The |nu'she, the tt' e, and the wind and rain
- The |u' ||ke' or Tshaka
- The |xam and the hyena
- The ||kauru-opua, or little water-hole found in rock or stone
- The ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting
- The ||kuken
- The ||kuken and ostrich feathers
- The |ßkururu (|xabbe, or 'Kritje')
- Things eaten by the !kun
- Throwing stones at locusts
- Told in illustration of the picture of the dance of sorcerers (Mr Stow's number 8 and 9)
- Tools: a note
- Trading with the Makoba and elephant tusks
- Treatment of bones
- Treatment of the old
- Tsatsi's treatment of bones
- Tto, 'rooi klip' (how tto is obtained)
- Unsuccessful springbok hunting after death of companion (means employed to make it more fortunate)
- Various foods and the protection of the rain for a fungus
- Water and wells
- We do not utter a star man's name
- What !nanni's father told him (what to eat and avoid)
- What Xaa-ttin used to sing (the broken string)
- What bow strings are made of
- What happens when we die
- What is done by the Bushmen (men and women) in an eclipse of the sun
- What is done with a 'new' maiden
- What is said to a person whose actions are disagreeable
- What sorcerers eat
- What the lion did to Xwerri-kau; and what parts of game should not be eaten by little children
- What the lion says
- What the man does and says to the new Ssho |oa so that it may know him
- What the man says while cleansing himself
- What the people eat and wear (the Anteater's laws) (||kabbo's version 2)
- What the springbok and the gemsbok did when they knew that Dia!kwain's wife would die
- What |kaggen does when an eland has been shot
- When a good-looking person is ill
- When a man's flesh moves
- Why !kweiten ta ||ken received her name
- Why Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo received his name
- Why Dia!kwain's uncle |kai kwa received his name
- Wind, weather and springbok hunting
- Windmaking and springbok hunting
- Words and sentences (and Dia!kwain's father's drawings)
- Words and sentences: given by !nanni and Tamme in Mowbray
- Words and sentences: given by Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by Tamme
- Words and sentences: plants and animals
- Words and sentences: plants and animals
- Words and sentences: plants and animals
- Words and sentences: plants and animals (and avoiding the lion's name)
- Words and sentences: things belonging to different peoples in !nanni and Tamme's country, and plants and trees
- Words and sentences: times, country and language
- Young moon's story
- |kai ka !gaoken, a poison used by 'Grass Bushmen'
- |nu-!ke or magicians who have died still possess power, and ≠kamme-an's prayer to them
- |u' ||ke' in food
- |xue, ||namme, and the |nani, or, The |nani
- ||gan-a (spirits or dreams)
- ||hara and Tto
- ||kabbo tells of death, the hole, and the path of the First Bushmen
- ||kabbo's place
- ||kabbo's treatment of bones
- ||kurru, or ||kutten-||kutten (making weapons)
- ≠kasin's adventure with a leopard
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Healing and ailing
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History (Early Race)
- !kotta-kkoe, his brother, ostrich eggs and Korannas
- !yoa-ka-ttu, the Blue Crane and the girls
- A fragment of a story about Lions and Jackals
- A further explanation of the ratel (or Mellivora): why it is like a man
- A man falls upon the Lion
- A man falls upon the Lion
- A man is wounded by another by accident when out after springbok
- A note on the First Bushmen
- About a moth called by the Bushmen !num-!num and said to pour lice upon them
- Baboons and quagga are people
- Baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu
- Baboons who ate human beings
- Beasts of prey were once people
- Black Crow calling Jackal
- Crows and a note on secretary birds
- Ddi xerreten and the Lioness
- Description of the ≠nerru
- Eating hare's meat
- End of Moon and Hare story
- Fragment of a story about the old man, the little Hare and the travelling Lions
- Fragment of the story of the old woman sending the children to throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky (given by Blaitje Snell)
- Further details of Men who hunted lions with bones
- Game once tame: why it grew wild
- Heron's song (The song of the Blue Crane)
- How the !gabbaken-!gabbaken (the Mason Wasp) punished his wife for making personal remarks
- How the Jackal deceived the Hyena
- Koranna commando destroyed by ||ua
- Leopards and jackals
- Lion and Fieldmouse
- Lion and Tortoise
- Lion turns into a man
- Mat sieves
- Men who hunted lions with bones
- Note on the two Lions
- Old woman's song (2nd version)
- Quagga makes flour
- Remarks by |han≠kass'o on the preceding story (The death of the !kau)
- Resurrection of the He-Ostrich
- Song of the !kau's child
- Stones which kill the thrower
- Story of the Lion and the Jackals
- Story of the Lion and the Jackals: another translation which is a little different
- Story of the Moon and the Hare and how the Moon punished the Hare
- Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain
- Story of |kua ka khumm
- The !gwiten who was niggardly to his wife
- The !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head, and put it on his own head
- The !kau who brought home his own flesh as food
- The !khau carried off by a Lion
- The !koa (or Muishond)
- The Anteater's laws (|a!kunta's version)
- The Anteater's laws (||kabbo's version 2)
- The Anteater's story, or, The Anteater, Springbok, Lynx and Partridge
- The Anteater, Springbok and Lynx (||kabbo's version 1)
- The Anteater, Springbok and Lynx (||kabbo's version 2)
- The Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge
- The Blue Crane and the girls (including the Blue Crane's speech)
- The Crow's story: the Crows are sent out to search for husbands, or, The !kagen ka Kkomm's story and the |hunn ta kkomm's story (including What happened when the !kagen found the missing men, p.3995)
- The Day's Heart star
- The Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman: a creation legend
- The Hyena and the Lion (1st version)
- The Hyena's revenge
- The Jackal and the Porcupine
- The Jackal's speech, or, the Jackals and a springbok which the Hyena takes away from them
- The Korannas brought guns (while they felt that they had not a little cattle)
- The Korhaan marries his elder sister (the Anteater's laws) (||kabbo's version 2)
- The Lion and the Muishond (continued from The two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross)
- The Lion and the Tortoise (continued from The two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross)
- The Lion and the man's story; what the Lion formerly did to the man or The young man of the Ancient Race, who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field
- The Lion becomes a star
- The Lion's story
- The Lion's story, or, The Lion and the Hyena
- The Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman
- The Moon and Sun (another version of The Sun which pierces the Moon with its knife by ||kabbo)
- The Moon and the Hare (origin of death)
- The Moon becomes angry at the children's laughing at him: an explanation of the eclipse of the moon
- The Quagga who was poisoned by her husband, !kuin'ssi-|kauoken
- The Quagga's story
- The Rain, in the form of an eland, shot by one of the Early Race of people; and the disasters which followed
- The Ratel and the girls of the Early Race
- The She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors
- The Vultures and their elder sister
- The Wind
- The Xara and the Ichneumon
- The children are sent to throw the sleeping Sun into the sky
- The children of the First Bushmen (who preceded the Flat Bushmen in their country) throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky, or, The children of the !khwe |na ssho !ke, ordered by their mothers, throw the sleeping Sun into the sky (a second version of the story)
- The death of the !kau (a lizard of the genus Agama)
- The doings of the jackals
- The escape of |kannan from the Koranna commando
- The girl of the Early Race who killed the children of the Rain
- The girl who made locusts
- The girl who made the Milky Way, by throwing ashes into the sky
- The girl, of the Early Race of people, who married a Baboon
- The hare and the moon
- The maiden who was taken up in a whirlwind by the agency of the angry Rain and became a great snake
- The man who ordered his wife to cut off his ears
- The man who went to sleep when out hunting alone
- The moon and the hare
- The reason why the ostrich does not click
- The sending of the Crows, or, Crows sent out to look for husbands
- The son of the Wind
- The song of the Mother Rhinoceros
- The song of the Springbok mothers
- The song of the kwa kwara, or korhaan malkop
- The song of the young woman, as she returned home
- The story of !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants
- The story of !khwe-|na ssho-!kui: the man who took a young Lion, and made use of it as a dog ( a story of the First Bushman)
- The story of Tssi-!kuara |hin (the Lioness and her adopted daughter)
- The story of the Hyena (the Anteater's laws)
- The story of the Hyena and the Lion (2nd version)
- The story of the Jackal (the Anteater's laws)
- The story of the Kwa-kkwara
- The story of the Leopard Tortoise
- The story of the Lions and the Ostriches
- The story of the Lynx and the Anteater
- The story of the Ratel (or Mellivora) and the Waterskilpad
- The story of the Silver Jackal (the Anteater's laws)
- The story of the Strandwolf and the Aardwolf and how they each marry their own kind (the Anteater's laws)
- The story of |gwai (who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his brother-in-law)
- The story of |kuken-|u |unu
- The two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebuck, and the Black Crow
- The two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross
- The woman eaten by Baboons: a fragment of the account
- The woman who was killed by the Baboons
- The young woman who disobeyed her mother, and fell in with the two Lions (!haue ta ≠hou and !gu)
- The youth (of the Early Race of people) who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando
- The ≠nuturu
- What the man did to his wife when she was pregnant
- What the people eat and wear (the Anteater's laws) (||kabbo's version 2)
- When Bushmen were springbucks and cried
- Young man of the Early Race put into a mouse skin and becomes a lion
- ||kabbo tells of death, the hole, and the path of the First Bushmen
- ≠kagara and !haunu
- ≠kainyatara and the Ostrich
- ≠nerru and her husband
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History (personal)
- !guerriten-dde
- !kaua doro and the lion
- !khannumup (or Petros Willems): his personal history
- !nanni's father's dress
- !nanni's grandparents
- !nanni's uncle
- !nauxa (or Willem) at the Museum, 24 September 1880
- !nuin-|kui-ten (who was a sorcerer or magician)
- !xen and the steenbok
- A few words, names, etc., obtained from Blaitje Snell and Daoud Moos (chiefly the former); from Stuurman's, and Thier Fontein
- A great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken who did not understand Dutch
- A photograph of Xu gwai reminding |han≠kass'o of !nwa !koro
- A review on the parade
- About Dia!kwain's relations
- About the sorceress !kwarra-an
- At Breakwater, 17 April 1880
- Baboons and ||xabbiten ||xabbiten
- Baboons take a child
- Beating a stone on the ground
- Beetje, daughter of !kweintu
- Bushman genealogies
- Bushman groups
- Butterflies and !giten
- Chippings made by Dia!kwain's father (before the time of the 'Boers')
- Concerning apparitions (or How, when the first wife of Dia!kwain was buried, those returning to their homes saw the apparition of a little child)
- Concerning different Bushmen
- Concerning places and topographical features in |han≠kass'o's country; his father-in-law's place is ||gubbo
- Customs at death
- Da: his capture and the death of his parents
- Details about various people known by |han≠kass'o
- Dia!kwain explains his mother's 'little name'
- Dia!kwain plays the bow in a thunderstorm, or, The thunderstorm
- Dia!kwain's explanation of the name which his mother gave him
- Dia!kwain's relations
- Different peoples and Bushmen in !nanni and Tamme's country
- Dirk (!xein, son of Dootje)
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_001
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- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_005
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- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_015
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- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_018
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_019
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- Dreams and rain
- Dust signals, or, A man who becomes faint from the heat of the sun on his way home, throws up earth into the air, so that those at home may see the dust, and come to help him
- Family trees
- Flood at Victoria West
- Food that ≠kasin says he does not eat
- From 'Jan Plat' at Charlton House, Mowbray
- Game once tame: why it grew wild
- Genealogical information concerning the family of |han≠kass'o (or Klein Jantje)
- Genealogical notes
- Genealogies
- Genealogies: Ttono wo (who was killed by a rhinoceros)
- Hendrik (Ronebout) at Breakwater hospital
- How 'Mansse' obtained the name of !kau ||hoan
- How Tamme was taken by the Makoba and given to the Ovambo
- How Xaa-ttin asked (or prayed to) the dead magician (named !nuin-|kui-ten) for rain, which was speedily bestowed
- How a lion carried off ≠kasin's eldest brother and wounded his father
- How an owl (by its conduct) made |a-kkumm think that danger must be at hand and how she was sought for by a lion, which spoke to her in a man's voice
- How to get rid of the evil influence of bad dreams
- How |han≠kass'o's pet leveret was killed
- Hyena and lion
- Jackal clouds
- Jacob Nein and the leopard
- Jan Plat (at Breakwater; looked over later at Mowbray)
- Jan Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu
- Jan Plat's story about his brother Ruyter
- Jan Ronebout or ≠gerri-sse (at Breakwater and later at Mowbray)
- Jantje Tooren tells me his dream
- Jantje Tooren told by his father not to look towards the Moon as it comes out
- Jantje Tooren's asking for thread to sew on his buttons that I gave him
- Jemima Bleek's 'Hottentot' interviews, 1879
- Karu on |xue
- Kki-a-||ken who threw stones at swallows
- Klaas Katkop (≠kasin)
- Klaas Paai or ≠enn (at Breakwater)
- Leopard hunting: the fatal adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion, and advice about leopard-hunting
- Locust birds
- Locusts
- Memo for Miss Lloyd' (regarding some personal details of 'Petros Willems' and 'Willem') (a copy)
- Mountain 'Bushmen'
- Names of !kweiten ta ||ken's relations
- Names of friends, relations and fellow prisoners
- Names of |han≠kass'o's relations
- Names of ≠kasin's father, mother and their children
- Note on a certain man
- Note on kkuirri-ttu
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 2 (!nu'sa and other groups)
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 3
- Notes to the story of The Wind
- Oh old woman! At what place did you grow up?
- Oud Bakkis or 'one nose'
- Oud Dorntje catches a leopard ('tiger')
- Parts of the ostrich not to be eaten by children
- People fear the darkness's rain
- Personal history of Friedrich Hortnoop
- Personal history of Hendrick Beren and some words
- Personal history of Jan Plat (he leaves Calvinia with Dia!kwain)
- Personal history of prisoners
- Personal history of |han≠kass'o
- Personal history of ||kabbo
- Places of the |xam
- Poisons and a description of gathering them
- Sirius and Canopus
- Sleeping in ashes
- Sneezing: and searching for wives and families
- Spoken of a parrot in the village of Mowbray
- Stoffel's grandmother
- Story of ≠kasin's hunting adventures
- Swallows
- Tamme does not tell about |xue
- Tamme's experiences before coming to Mowbray
- Tamme's family and their understanding of the languages spoken in their country
- Tamme's father
- Tamme's grandparents
- The !gixa (sorcerer) |kaunu
- The !ho and Ko-boken
- The 'Bushman doctor'
- The Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken
- The Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman: a creation legend
- The adventure of a girl, named Ttai-tchuen, with a lioness who had young cubs
- The broken string
- The calling of Ttuai-an's name
- The darkness
- The death of an aunt
- The death of |kannu the Rain's man who was ||kabbo's person
- The death of ||kabbo's brother and sister-in-law
- The dream
- The dream which Dia!kwain had before he received the tidings of the death of his father
- The drought which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve
- The escape of |kannan from the Koranna commando
- The explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta (or Snore-White-Lying)
- The giving of nicknames
- The hunting, preparation and eating of ostrich, 'chiansbok', springbok, khoran, hare and jackal
- The loss of ||kabbo's tobacco bag, which was stolen by a hungry dog, belonging to !gou !nui, named 'Blom'
- The man who sought refuge from the rain in a cave, and found a lion there before him
- The names of !nanni's brothers and sisters
- The names of !nanni's relations
- The names of Tamme's brothers – dead and alive
- The names of stones
- The occasion on which the story The girl of the Early Race who killed the children of the Rain was related to |han≠kass'o
- The personal histories of various people
- The power of cutting possessed by the reed and quartz
- The power over ostriches possessed by Dia!kwain's uncle, |uherre or 'Blaitje'
- The rain sorcerer ||kunn; two of ||kunn's children
- The rainmaker ||kunn
- The scene of !kaua doro and the lion
- The story of a sorceress; that which she did when the Kafir had hurt my throat, she 'snored' me, when my throat was swollen
- The tale of a wise person or sorceress, what she said, when she talked with us
- The |xam names of some of Mkuan's relations
- The ||gaun-a. The Ghost
- Things eaten by the !kun
- Throwing stones at locusts
- Thy name which is a Bushman name, what is it?'
- Trading with the Makoba and elephant tusks
- Tsatsi
- Tsatsi's treatment of bones
- Visit to Dr Stewart
- Water and wells
- What !nanni's father told him (what to eat and avoid)
- What Xaa-ttin used to sing (the broken string)
- What happened when the thong (with which they were pulling at the Water's Bull) broke or Kko-kkoro's story
- What the lion did to Xwerri-kau; and what parts of game should not be eaten by little children
- What the springbok and the gemsbok did when they knew that Dia!kwain's wife would die
- What ||kabbo said about his intended return home to Bushmanland
- Why !kweiten ta ||ken received her name
- Why Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo received his name
- Why Dia!kwain's uncle |kai kwa received his name
- Words and sentences (and Dia!kwain's father's drawings)
- Words and sentences: Da, May 1880
- Words and sentences: Mkuan at the Breakwater
- Words and sentences: by !kweiten ta ||ken
- Words and sentences: given by Auma (Hottentot, Namaqua and Setschuana)
- Words and sentences: given by Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by ≠girri-sse
- Words and sentences: times, country and language
- Words and sentences: |uma at Mowbray, May 1880
- Xaa-ttin's accident
- Xurri ko killed by a lion
- | a khumm called by a lion
- |a!karaken killed by a lion
- |gui-an (Dootje) and her mistress, Trina de Klerk
- |han≠kass'o's dream of a gang of prisoners
- |uma and Da: the names of their parents
- |uma: his capture by the Makoba and his Boer masters
- |xam dialects ('Berg Bushmen' and 'River Bed people')
- |xam names
- |xannan |xannan
- |xannan |xannan and the wind
- |xui tatin and the dog
- |xui tatin's story
- ||kabbo ('Oud Jantje Tooren'), a 'Mantis's man'
- ||kabbo (Jantje) in the train
- ||kabbo's (Jantje's) capture
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed (2nd version)
- ||kabbo's account of meeting with a lion
- ||kabbo's dream of rain
- ||kabbo's maternal grandmother, who was a !gixa
- ||kabbo's song on the loss of his tobacco pouch
- ||kabbo's treatment of bones
- ||kurru, or ||kutten-||kutten (making weapons)
- ||xuobbeten and the lion
- ≠kagara's fight with !haunu in the east
- ≠kasin shoots a hyena
- ≠kasin's adventure with a leopard
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New maidens
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Plants and animals
- !gweh or Malkop Gift (poisons)
- !nanni's drawing of the |kui
- A Bushman belief about a moth called |goro, the coming of which to the fire at night foretells the slaying of an ostrich (or the finding of ostrich eggs) by one of the men
- A belief about the bat and the porcupine
- A certain snake, which, by lying upon its back, announces a death in the family; and must not, in these circumstances, be killed
- A discussion on the respective understanding and foolishnesses of various animals and some of their doings
- A lion's story, or, The child who saved her sleeping parents from the lion
- A note about the porcupine
- A note on ||kum'm or rain-clouds
- A small insect called !ka !karro, said to resemble the Moon, used by Bushmen women to ascertain if the men will bring food home
- About 'seacows'
- About Ssho |oa: where to be found
- About a moth called by the Bushmen !num-!num and said to pour lice upon them
- About cattle
- About poison
- About the fine hearing of the porcupine
- About the hartebeest
- About the hyena and its doings
- About the jackal and its doings
- About the korhaan
- About the wildebeest
- An ignorant man digs up Ssho |oa and the consequences of his actions
- Avoidance behaviour relating to lions
- Baboon's ss'o |a and hair used as charms against illness
- Baboons and quagga are people
- Baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu
- Baboons know our names
- Baboons should not be spoken with
- Baboons speak Bushman, and have wives
- Baboons take a child
- Baboons try to shoot people – means of preventing It
- Birds and bird's eggs
- Birds await the death of a thing
- Concerning the |kuken-|u |unu, which is found abundantly, in Bushmanland
- Description of animals and their habits
- Doings of the springbok and springbok hunting
- Edible plants found near water
- Explanation of Mr G. Stow's pictures: 1 (habits of the hunting leopard)
- Food eaten by Bushmen (five types of berries and roots)
- Food eaten by the !kun
- Food eaten by the !kun
- Grasshoppers
- Habits of jackals
- Habits of porcupines
- How an old woman asked a chameleon for rain
- How an owl (by its conduct) made |a-kkumm think that danger must be at hand and how she was sought for by a lion, which spoke to her in a man's voice
- How the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind became the Porcupine; followed by various remarks about porcupines
- How various mice make their nests
- How women fear the new Ssho |oa which has just been brought home
- Hyena and lion
- Leopards, lions and phrases
- Lion and giraffe
- Lion eats all things
- Lions
- Locust birds
- Locusts
- Locusts
- Locusts or ||kabba-|kha
- Medicines taken by the ill
- More about the Day's Heart star: what he says to his daughter
- More about the hyena and its doings
- More about the jackal and its doings
- Moths coming to the fire of Bushmen by night foretell the killing of certain kinds of game
- Names of insects and notes on some of them (at the South African Museum)
- Names of plants and animals and notes on their use
- Note on lizards
- Notes on a bird (|kitten-|kitten)
- Parents instruct children how to get food, or, How D.H's father and mother instructed their children to get food
- Poisons and a description of gathering them
- Porcupine hunting: we go to sit waiting for a porcupine and some of the habits of the porcupine
- Porcupine's hole
- Regarding the living again of male ostriches
- September 1st, 1879, South African Museum (from !nanni and Tamme)
- Song of the !kan ||ka ||karashe
- Song of the sho sho
- Song of the ||ku
- Springbok ewes and lamb's cries
- Springbok horns
- Stars and death
- Swallows
- The !ka-ka |khueten (a spider)
- The !kabbi: a bird which has white legs and is eaten
- The !khou or water tortoise
- The !kuerre-!kuerre (a bird)
- The !kwana thorn tree
- The Anteater's laws (||kabbo's version 2)
- The Anteater, Springbok and Lynx (||kabbo's version 1)
- The Dzana
- The Ichneumon's discourse to the Mantis
- The Jackal and the Porcupine
- The Jackal's speech, or, the Jackals and a springbok which the Hyena takes away from them
- The Maiya
- The Mantis and Koro-tuiten
- The Phyllomorpha paradoxa (or withered-leaf insect)
- The Ttu ttutten (birds)
- The adhesive substance (|kwae) used in arrowmaking and its preparation for use
- The adventure of a girl, named Ttai-tchuen, with a lioness who had young cubs
- The avoidance of the name of the lion
- The bird called by the !kun Goba-|nua-me
- The children taught to use another name for the lion
- The coming of lion
- The coming of the Mantis [the mantis] to sit upon the quiver of the Bushman father at home foretells the shooting of a hartebeest
- The consequences of a woman's smelling fresh Ssho |oa scent
- The digging out of 'Bushman rice'
- The doings of a family of lions
- The doings of the jackals
- The gemsbok is a wind's thing
- The hyena
- The hyena carries ostrich meat home to his children and the jackal which picks the backbone
- The intelligence and timidity of the jackal
- The jackal watches the lion
- The kwa kwara, or korhaan malkop
- The lion and the giraffe
- The lion's dream
- The little elephant
- The little elephant (which fell into the game pit but did not die)
- The locust bird or ||kerri
- The man who sought refuge from the rain in a cave, and found a lion there before him
- The manner in which a man who is being cleansed, is prepared for drinking water
- The names of animals
- The owl and the black crow
- The porcupine eats ||kuarri
- The quagga is also a wind's thing
- The reason why the ostrich does not click
- The song of the !ke tsa'ba (a bird)
- The song of the !na !na'rishe (a bird)
- The song of the sauko
- The story of the Hyena (the Anteater's laws)
- The story of the Jackal (the Anteater's laws)
- The story of the Silver Jackal (the Anteater's laws)
- The story of the Strandwolf and the Aardwolf and how they each marry their own kind (the Anteater's laws)
- The telephonus (!koroken !koroken)
- The |ka kau: a little bird said by the Bushmen, by whom it is not eaten, to laugh at the wildcat
- The |khoro and the ≠gue-||na
- The |khuken-|u |unu
- The |nu'she, the tt' e, and the wind and rain
- The |nushe
- The |u' ||ke' or Tshaka
- The ||kerri (locust bird)
- The ||kerri bird and locusts
- The ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting
- The ≠xo gure bird
- Things eaten by the !kun
- Throwing stones at locusts
- Various foods and the protection of the rain for a fungus
- What the man does and says to the new Ssho |oa so that it may know him
- What the man says while cleansing himself
- What the owl says
- What the springbok and the gemsbok did when they knew that Dia!kwain's wife would die
- Wildcat turns into a lion
- Windmaking and springbok hunting
- Words and sentences given by |han≠kass'o
- Words and sentences: given by !nanni and Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by ≠kasin
- Words and sentences: names and descriptions of animals, and a song
- Words and sentences: names of animals given by Klaas Katkop (≠kasin), ||kabbo (Jantje) and |a!kunta (Stoffel)
- Words and sentences: names of animals given by Tamme at the museum
- Words and sentences: plants and animals
- Words and sentences: plants and animals
- Words and sentences: things belonging to different peoples in !nanni and Tamme's country, and plants and trees
- [Story about lions and korhaan malkop]
- |harritan, the locust bird
- |kai ka !gaoken, a poison used by 'Grass Bushmen'
- |u' ||ke' in food
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Poetry
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Portention
- !nanna-sse
- A Bushman belief about a moth called |goro, the coming of which to the fire at night foretells the slaying of an ostrich (or the finding of ostrich eggs) by one of the men
- A certain snake, which, by lying upon its back, announces a death in the family; and must not, in these circumstances, be killed
- A presentiment
- A small insect called !ka !karro, said to resemble the Moon, used by Bushmen women to ascertain if the men will bring food home
- A snake found near a grave
- An owl believed to foretell the coming of the lion
- Crows and a note on secretary birds
- Cuts to be made on a bow when a hyena has been killed
- Destroying the sneeze or kkoroken
- Earthquake
- Explanation of !hau-!hau (a hunting charm)
- Falling stars
- Gargling
- How the approach of a commando is foretold by the mist
- Karosses must not be beaten upon the ground, for fear of bad consequences
- Moths coming to the fire of Bushmen by night foretell the killing of certain kinds of game
- Picture of Mr Orpen's
- Pieces of wood for divining, or |xu
- Sneezing
- Stars and death
- The !ho and Ko-boken
- The !kwai !kwai, the Mantis and the children
- The Moon
- The coming of lion
- The coming of the Mantis [the mantis] to sit upon the quiver of the Bushman father at home foretells the shooting of a hartebeest
- The crying of the wind is an evil omen
- The crying of the wind tells beasts of prey where to find people
- The dream which Dia!kwain had before he received the tidings of the death of his father
- The lion's dream
- The locust bird or ||kerri
- The owl and the black crow
- The pieces of wood used by the Bushmen of !nanni's country for divining future events
- The springbok's story
- The telephonus (!koroken !koroken)
- We do not utter a star man's name
- What the springbok and the gemsbok did when they knew that Dia!kwain's wife would die
- Windmaking and springbok hunting
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Relations with others
- !kotta-kkoe, his brother, ostrich eggs and Korannas
- !nanni's uncle
- !nuin-|kui-ten (who was a sorcerer or magician)
- A review on the parade
- Baboons and ||xabbiten ||xabbiten
- Chippings made by Dia!kwain's father (before the time of the 'Boers')
- Details about various people known by |han≠kass'o
- Different peoples and Bushmen in !nanni and Tamme's country
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- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_018
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_019
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_022
- Hai ||umm
- Hendrik (Ronebout) at Breakwater hospital
- How Korannas and the |xam cut themselves in order to shoot well
- How Tamme was taken by the Makoba and given to the Ovambo
- How the approach of a commando is foretold by the mist
- Jan Plat (at Breakwater; looked over later at Mowbray)
- Jan Plat's story about his brother Ruyter
- Kki-a-||ken who threw stones at swallows
- Koranna commando destroyed by ||ua
- Note on a certain man
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 2 (!nu'sa and other groups)
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 3
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 5, no. 6. and no. 7
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 9
- Notes to the story of The Wind
- Ostriches and barter
- Others living north of the Orange River
- Peoples of !nanni and Tamme's country
- Personal history of Jan Plat (he leaves Calvinia with Dia!kwain)
- Pieces of wood for divining, or |xu
- Pots and trading
- Sneezing: and searching for wives and families
- Tamme's family and their understanding of the languages spoken in their country
- The Korannas brought guns (while they felt that they had not a little cattle)
- The Makoba
- The Mantis takes away the Tick's sheep (including Porcupine's speech concerning the coming of ||khwai-hemm)
- The approach of strangers makes Bushmen sleepy
- The broken string
- The darkness
- The dream which Dia!kwain had before he received the tidings of the death of his father
- The eating of baboons
- The personal histories of various people
- The sending of the Crows, or, Crows sent out to look for husbands
- The springbok resemble the water of the sea
- The |xam and the Dutch
- Trading with the Makoba and elephant tusks
- Visit to Dr Stewart
- What Xaa-ttin used to sing (the broken string)
- Words and sentences: Koranna-|xam vocabulary
- Words and sentences: given by !nanni and Tamme in Mowbray
- Words and sentences: things belonging to different peoples in !nanni and Tamme's country, and plants and trees
- |gui-an (Dootje) and her mistress, Trina de Klerk
- |han≠kass'o's dream of a gang of prisoners
- |xam dialects ('Berg Bushmen' and 'River Bed people')
- |xam-speaking people
- |xue and his son
- |xue and his wives
- |xue, his father and changes
- |xue, ||namme, and the |nani, or, The |nani
- ||gan-a (spirits or dreams)
- ||kabbo (Jantje) in the train
- ||kabbo's (Jantje's) capture
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed (2nd version)
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The Rain and Rain's water
- A Rain story
- A girl does not eat porcupines' tails
- A note about the porcupine
- A note on ||kum'm or rain-clouds
- A yet unwritten story, about the Rain and one of the First Bushmen girls carried away by a whirlwind and who became a frog
- A young woman of the Early Race of people carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull
- About locusts
- About maidens and how they adorn young men with ||ka or 'rooi klip'
- About new maidens
- About new maidens (continued from Bleek's Book XXVII: p.2618)
- An account of the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau
- Aquilae's water
- Clouds and wind
- Dead people are those who rode the Rain
- Dia!kwain plays the bow in a thunderstorm, or, The thunderstorm
- Dreams and rain
- Flood at Victoria West
- Horns burnt for rain
- How Xaa-ttin asked (or prayed to) the dead magician (named !nuin-|kui-ten) for rain, which was speedily bestowed
- How an old woman asked a chameleon for rain
- How the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind became the Porcupine; followed by various remarks about porcupines
- Jackal clouds
- Kinds of rain
- Lightning which is black, it is that which kills us
- Locusts
- Method of cooking and eating porcupine
- Mode of addressing rain
- Notes on rock painting copy no. 8: the rain and the rain-bull
- People fear the darkness's rain
- Rain changes people into frogs
- Rain protects frogs
- Rain washes out a dead man's footsteps
- Rain's animals
- Rainmaking
- Rainmaking (a version by Dia!kwain)
- Rainmaking, when the wind is in the north
- Rainmaking: another story of it
- Remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV Collected By Mr H.C. Schunke, and deposited in the Grey Library
- Stars and death
- Swallows
- The !gixa (sorcerer) |kaunu
- The !khau lizard and the rainclouds – springbok hunting follows rain; and the song of the !khau lizard
- The !khou or water tortoise
- The !kuerri |nan and the rain
- The Rain's story, and |kannu the waterhole
- The Rain, in the form of an eland, shot by one of the Early Race of people; and the disasters which followed
- The Water's story: more about how maidens adorn young men
- The death of |kannu the Rain's man who was ||kabbo's person
- The girl of the Early Race who killed the children of the Rain
- The girl who snaps her fingers at her parents and the rain
- The hail is the rain's legs
- The maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain (and causes lightning)
- The maiden who was taken up in a whirlwind by the agency of the angry Rain and became a great snake
- The maiden's story; the frog's story
- The rain (and eating tortoises)
- The rain sorcerer ||kunn; two of ||kunn's children
- The rainmaker ||kunn
- The story of the old man who makes rain
- The |khuken-|u |unu
- The ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting
- Things girls and youths must avoid (the rain's things)
- Various foods and the protection of the rain for a fungus
- Want of rain
- What happened when the thong (with which they were pulling at the Water's Bull) broke or Kko-kkoro's story
- Why the chameleon must not be killed
- Wind, weather and springbok hunting
- Young unmarried women and girls must be silent and hide from the rain
- |kannu the rainmaker
- ≠kagara and !haunu
- ≠kagara's fight with !haunu in the east
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Transformation
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Words and sentences
- A 'spelletje' or rhyme
- A few words, names, etc., obtained from Blaitje Snell and Daoud Moos (chiefly the former); from Stuurman's, and Thier Fontein
- Amsterdam Battery, near Cape Town: July 15/79
- Birds and bird's eggs
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_001
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_002
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_003
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_004
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- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_027
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_028
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_029
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_030
- Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_031
- From 'Jan Plat' at Charlton House, Mowbray
- From 'Philip' June '77 at Grey Library
- Greetings among the Bushmen (and times of the day)
- Intelligent and foolish people
- Jantje (||kabbo) at museum. May 30 /71 (names of animals)
- Jemima Bleek's 'Hottentot' interviews, 1879
- Jemima Bleek's interviews with !nanni and Tamme, September to November 1879
- Koranna words with |xam and English translations
- Men who run away fear greatly (on courage and cowardice)
- Names of seasons
- Notes on clicks
- Notes on |xam
- Personal history of Hendrick Beren and some words
- Relationships
- Relationships and other words (words and sentences)
- September 1st, 1879, South African Museum (from !nanni and Tamme)
- Some Bushman words to be translated (L.C. Lloyd, June, 1913)
- Terms for being alive or not quite dead
- The Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman: a creation legend
- The father-in-law and the mother-in-law
- The names of a few places in Bushmanland, told to me long ago by Jantje Tooren and put in here for safety
- The names of stones
- Untranslated page of Lloyd's script in Bleek's Book XXIV
- Word lists, including 'Bushman/Hottentot' vocabulary
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences
- Words and sentences (and Dia!kwain's father's drawings)
- Words and sentences (dictionary and genealogies)
- Words and sentences (given by Adam Kleinhardt)
- Words and sentences (given by |a!kunta)
- Words and sentences (including a note on |xue)
- Words and sentences (including the names of stars)
- Words and sentences given by |han≠kass'o
- Words and sentences given by |han≠kass'o at the South African Museum
- Words and sentences given by |han≠kass'o at the South African Museum
- Words and sentences given by |han≠kass'o: names of colours and patterns
- Words and sentences given by |han≠kass'o: parts of the body
- Words and sentences: Boer's [Dutch] names for sheep
- Words and sentences: Da, May 1880
- Words and sentences: Kareebergen Stuurmansfontein dialect
- Words and sentences: Koranna-|xam vocabulary
- Words and sentences: Kronlein
- Words and sentences: Mkuan at the Breakwater
- Words and sentences: at the Museum, 24 September 1880 (!nauxa and !khannumup)
- Words and sentences: by !kweiten ta ||ken
- Words and sentences: given by !nanni and Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by !nanni and Tamme in Mowbray
- Words and sentences: given by Auma (Hottentot, Namaqua and Setschuana)
- Words and sentences: given by Griet
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx
- Words and sentences: given by Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by Tamme
- Words and sentences: given by ≠girri-sse
- Words and sentences: given by ≠kasin
- Words and sentences: given by ≠kasin (Klaas Katkop)
- Words and sentences: given by ≠kasin (Klaas Katkop) and Dia!kwain (David Hoesar)
- Words and sentences: got at Breakwater
- Words and sentences: names and descriptions of animals, and a song
- Words and sentences: names of animals
- Words and sentences: names of animals
- Words and sentences: names of animals (at the South African Museum)
- Words and sentences: names of animals and other terms relating to daily life
- Words and sentences: names of animals given by Klaas Katkop (≠kasin), ||kabbo (Jantje) and |a!kunta (Stoffel)
- Words and sentences: names of animals given by Tamme at the museum
- Words and sentences: names of bird's eggs
- Words and sentences: names of bones
- Words and sentences: names of colours
- Words and sentences: names of millipedes
- Words and sentences: parts of the body
- Words and sentences: parts of the body
- Words and sentences: parts of the body
- Words and sentences: plants and animals
- Words and sentences: plants and animals
- Words and sentences: plants and animals
- Words and sentences: plants and animals (and avoiding the lion's name)
- Words and sentences: regarding the expressions |guobba ||a, and !kwiten ||a (as applied to the flight of bees)
- Words and sentences: some questions
- Words and sentences: terms for various relationships by marriage
- Words and sentences: the door is shut
- Words and sentences: things belonging to different peoples in !nanni and Tamme's country, and plants and trees
- Words and sentences: times, country and language
- Words and sentences: various expressions for being angry
- Words and sentences: |a!kunta (Stoffel) in the museum (names of animals)
- Words and sentences: |uma and Da at Mowbray
- Words and sentences: |uma at Mowbray, May 1880
- Words and sentences: |xam names of animals
- Words given by Da
- Words in the dialect of the !kun or so-called 'Ongova Bushmen' of Hereroland
- Words in the dialect of the !kun or so-called 'Ongova Bushmen' of Hereroland
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|kaggen (the Mantis)
- !ga ka Kkumm. The Frog's story (Or, The Frog, the Blue Crane, the Beetle, and !kuommain |ka ||kau) (Part I)
- !gaunu-tsaxau (the son of the Mantis), the Baboons, and the Mantis
- A mother's prohibitions with regard to the hartebeest and her child
- A note to the story of The !kwai !kwai, the Mantis and the children
- About the Mantis
- Doings of the Mantis when the eland has been wounded
- Further adventures of the Mantis and !goe !kweitentu
- Further adventures of the Mantis and the Cat
- Further ceremonies in cutting up eland
- How an Elephant steals a young Springbok from |kaggen (the Mantis) or Pet Springbok carried off by an Elephant
- How the Blue Crane vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau, was killed and eaten by the Lions, and restored to life by means of one of the bones of the Mantis (Part 2)
- How the Ichneumon discovered what the Mantis did with the honey
- How the Ichneumon discovered what the Mantis did with the honey (a second 'right' version)
- Rainbow (|kaggen and !kwammana)
- Regarding the children of the Mantis
- Story of |kua ka khumm
- The !kwai !kwai, the Mantis and the children
- The Cat's song
- The Ichneumon rebukes the Mantis for his ill deeds
- The Ichneumon's discourse to the Mantis
- The Ichneumon's speech when |kaggen (the Mantis) had taken away the Meerkats' possessions
- The Lizard, the Mice and the Mantis (includes the song of the Agama lizard)
- The Mantis and !goe !kweitentu
- The Mantis and !goe !kweitentu
- The Mantis and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui (another version)
- The Mantis and Koro-tuiten
- The Mantis and the Cat
- The Mantis and the Great Tortoise
- The Mantis and the Ticks
- The Mantis and the Ticks
- The Mantis and the hunting of eland
- The Mantis and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house
- The Mantis and ||khwai-hemm
- The Mantis makes an eland
- The Mantis pretends he has left one of his veldschoens behind and becomes a Lion
- The Mantis takes away the Tick's sheep (including Porcupine's speech concerning the coming of ||khwai-hemm)
- The Mantis turned into a hartebeest
- The Mantis — giver of names to places
- The Mantis, his wife and their things
- The Mantis, the Ichneumon and |kammanga go to Lion's house
- The Mantis, the Mice and the Beetle
- The Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and the Mantis, or why the (black) Wildebeest has a white or light coloured tail
- The children are sent to throw the sleeping Sun into the sky
- The hartebeest and the eland belong to the Mantis
- The hartebeest resembles the Mantis
- The monster ||khwai-hemm's speech
- The monster ||khwai-hemm’s speech to the Mantis and the Mantis's reply
- The names of |kaggen's wife, son and daughter
- The origin of the Moon
- The reasons for the colours of the gemsbok, the hartebeest, the eland, the quagga, and the springbok
- The story of the Mantis and the Ostrich who talks (|kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui)
- The story of the Springbok's kid, who was carried off by the Elephants (an incomplete account)
- The |kaggen who took |kammanga's shoe, and turned it into an eland
- The |kain |kain, the girls and the Mantis
- What |kaggen does when an eland has been shot
- When Bushmen were springbucks and cried
- |kaggen (the Mantis) and the Moon (version 1)
- |kaggen (the Mantis) and the Moon: creation of the latter (version 2)
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen
- |kuamman-a, accompanied by the Mantis and the young Ichneumon, visits the house of the |ku, or, The Mantis and the Proteles