Notebooks

Keywords

- given by Piet Lynx 1138
- more Koranna divisions 1138

!au
- is a utensil for eating 584
- shaped rib-bone 584
- the making of 584
- the working or shaping of 584
- used for eating gambro and |kuiten 584

!gabbaken-!gabbaken
- his wife found fault with his appearance 676
- how he punished his wife for making personal remarks 676
- or Mason Wasp 676
- possessed weapons 676
- shot his wife and killed her with an arrow intended for the Hare 676
- was formerly a man 676

!gaunu
- a song sung by, especially by women 518
- and 'Aquilae's water' 690
- and flowers 517
- and stars 517
- and the Dawn's stars 505
- and the names of stars 517
- asks the ||garraken flower to open 517
- great Star 505
- his song 505
- his song to the Star 517
- is !guonni 517, 519
- loved the Star 517
- named the stars 505
- names he gave to stars 690
- rejoices 517
- singing named the stars 505
- sings about the ||garraken flower and the ≠ku yam flower 518
- sings that the ≠ku yam is the one that opens 517
- sings to the flowers and stars 517
- Sirius 517
- the great Star 690
- the honey singer 517
- the Star 517
- was formerly a person 517

!gaunu tsaxau
- |kaggen's son is 602

!gaunu-tsaxau
- 'living returns' 666
- the Baboons play with his eyeball 666
- the death and resurrection of 666
- –the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666

!goe !kweitentu
- !goe !kwaiten ttu 239
- !gwe-!kweiten-ttu 353
- 'cross man' 38
- 'foot's armpits' 38
- 'old man' 38
- and |kaggen 239
- beating of 38
- beats |kaggen 38
- deceives and defeats |kaggen 353
- dust and 38
- eyes in feet of 38
- eyes in toes of 38
- eyes of on ground 38
- feet of 38
- fights with |kaggen 38, 88
- fights |kaggen 239
- has eyes in its feet 239
- head-wounds of 38
- Ignis fatuus 353
- is blinded 38
- its eyes are between its toes 353
- its fight with |kaggen 353
- possibly will o' the wisp, or marsh gas 353
- the location of its eyes 353
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- toes of 38
- |kaggen and 38, 353
- |kaggen crosses its spoor 88

!goin-!goin
- and a dance 598
- and finding and eating honey 598
- beating it 598
- method of playing 598
- used for calling bees 598

!goura
- a musical instrument 154, 506, 511
- and lightning 511
- and new maiden's glance 184
- and the rain 511
- and the thunderstorm 511
- Dia!kwain played his in a thunderstorm 511
- musical instrument 184
- of the youth turned to stone 506
- or bow 511
- played by man transformed into a tree 184
- song sung to 154

!guerriten-dde
- his cap made of springbok's scalp with springbok ears 803
- the springbok–sorcerer 803

!guonni
- !gaunu is 519
- 'bewitches us to death' 519
- buzzes or hums inside the hole 519
- flies away 519
- his actions 519
- his doings 519
- his spear 519
- his strong thing 519
- is a 'thing' which 'pinches the chest' 519
- is at the bee's hole 519
- knocks people down 519
- pinches 519
- sharpens his point 519
- stabs and makes people ill 519
- stabs or bewitches 519
- stabs people 519
- the people beat him to death 519
- what people do when they know his doings 519

!gwa !nuntu
- and his grandchild Ttau ho 618
- and the Elephant's chest 618
- and the Elephants 618
- and the Hyenas 618
- and the old woman's chest 618
- carries an ostrich-feather brush 618
- comes out of the back of the Elephant's head 618
- enters the Elephant's navel 618
- goes into the clouds 618
- goes into the Elephant's stomach 618
- his daughter 618
- his daughter questions him 618
- his daughter's rebuke 618
- his doings 618
- his granddaughter 618
- is bewitched into sleeping in the veld 618
- is foolish 618
- is old 618
- is one of the Early Race, the !xwe ||na ssho !kui 618
- rescues the child 618
- sleeps in a hole 618
- tramples the Elephant's heart 618

!haken
- and 'Bushman rice' sieved by people of the Early Race in things called !yuiten 861

!hau-!hau
- a hunting charm 674
- an explanation of 674
- and hunting 674
- for missing one's aim 674
- the making of 674

!haunu
- a rain's person 900
- accounting for his name 900
- dies thundering 900
- his fight with ≠kagara 900
- his name resembles mucus 900
- his things resemble water 900
- his wife carries his things 900
- is a man 900
- is a rain-sorcerer 900
- is killed by ≠kagara and his lightning 900
- is the rain 900
- is ≠kagara's brother-in-law 900
- makes thunder and lightning 900
- sneezes blood 900
- ≠kagara binds up his head 900
- ≠kagara rubs buchu as protection from his thundering 900

!ho
- a peculiar state of the atmosphere 500
- and Ko-boken 499
- and standing instead of sitting at dawn 500
- and sticks that seek people 500
- and the consequences of people standing over others 500
- and the consequences of standing at dawn 499
- and the early morning 500
- is a mirage 500
- is a whirlwind 499, 500
- its ill effect on people 500
- its ill effects on people 499
- knocks down and kills people 500
- makes people ill and kills them 499
- on the hunting-ground 499
- teachings about 499, 500
- warnings about 499, 500

!huin plant
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- is eaten by people 862
- where the Day's Heart star buries and hides the Day's Heart child 862

!huin roots
- are thrown into the sky by the new maiden 658
- covered in wood ash become the stars and the Milky Way 658

!k'anni
- a description of 841, 841
- a form of adornment 841
- an ornament tied to the hair 841
- an ornament worn by men and women 841
- |han≠kass'o's remarks about 841

!kagen
- and the sending of the Crows 120
- Crow 120
- fat tied on throat of 120

!kain
- a bird 905
- his appearance 905
- his head is bare and red 905
- is bald 905
- is proud on account of the Ostrich's hair 905
- is vain 905
- the !khau snatches the hair away from him 905
- who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head, and put it on his own head 905

!kaken-!kaka-!k'aui
- is a magic bird 269
- is a man who is different 269
- is different 269
- its eggs 269
- its fight with |kaggen 269
- talks 269
- |kaggen takes its eggs 269

!kan ||ka ||karashe
- a !kun song about 954
- eaten by the !kun 954

!kauruwo
- asks for |kaggen to be rescued 610
- asks people to treat |kaggen gently 610
- is |kaggen's wife 610
- scolds |kaggen 610
- the Dassie or rock rabbit 602
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- |kaggen's wife 602

!ke tsa'ba
- a !kun song about 973
- a description of 973
- bird 973
- eats a root called the djon 973
- is respected and not eaten by the !kun 973
- its song 973
- the diet and habits of 973

!khannumup
- a memo from A. Martin 1125
- additional information about him from A. Martin 1125
- and Mr Martin 1124
- and the Bondelswarts 1124
- details of his capture and imprisonment 1124
- from Great Namaqualand 1124
- his dwelling-place, Ou-op 1124
- his father's place was Kopjes Kuil, or |neidas 1124
- his genealogy 1124
- his personal history 1124, 1125
- his physical characteristics and measurements 1125
- or Petros Willems 1124, 1125
- the name of his family, the Kaross-Herbers 1124
- the names of his relations 1124
- was named after his mother 1124
- was on his way home 1124
- was released from Robben Island 1124
- was wrongfully imprisoned 1124
- where he came from 1124

!khau
- !kau 678, 696, 697, 698, 768
- 'lizard-scrap' 691
- a lizard of the genus Agama 696
- a lizard of the genus Agama or kochelman 613
- a person of the Early Race 691
- Agama lizard 678, 691, 697, 768
- and springbok hunting which follows rain 613
- and the Lion's 'head-shadow' 768
- and the rain 613
- and the rain-clouds 613
- and the song of the Agama lizard 906
- and the whirlwind 678
- and |kaggen's dream 906
- breaks in half and becomes !guru |na's pass and |xe-!khwai's pass 696
- brings home his own flesh as food 678
- broken in two by the mountain 696, 697
- calls to the Mice 906
- digs for 'Bushman rice' 768
- eats maggots 768
- frustrates the rain 613
- hides in holes 768
- his child 678
- his child's song 678, 691
- his daughter 906
- his flesh 691
- his flesh resembles the Quagga's 678
- his journey to a pool in the red sandhills 697
- his wife 678
- how people make it descend the tree 613
- is a person of the Early Race 696, 697
- is a rain's thing 613
- is angry with the !kain 905
- is carried off by the Lion 768
- is killed by the Lion 768
- is proud of the !kain's head's hair 905
- is tricked and killed by the Striped Mouse 906
- its 'earth's ditch's Gemsbok' 768
- its actions 613
- its actions prevent the rain from coming 613
- kills the Long-nosed Mouse's springbok 906
- lies in the Driedoorn tree 906
- lies on the Driedoorn tree 613
- lizard of the genus Agama 698
- lizard, of the genus Agama 905
- or !kau 691
- people shoot it 613
- plays with the !kain and takes his hair 905
- remarks by |han≠kass'o on the story of the death of 697
- snatches the !kain's head's hair 905
- squeezed to death by the mountain 696
- taunts the Lion 768
- the Agama lizard 906
- the death of 696
- the kochelman 696, 697, 698
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the male 613
- the nature and habits of 696
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the transformation of 696
- tricks and kills the Long-nosed Mice 906
- was a person 678
- was formerly a person of the Early Race 905
- what people say to it 613
- where it is found 696
- who resembles the Quagga 678
- who was formerly a man 691

!khwa
- and the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 580
- the Rain 580
- the rain-bull or waterbull 580

!khwe-|na ssho-!kui
- does not understand 283
- gives young Lion a name 283
- his son understands and is a child who talks 283
- his thinking channels were closed 283
- his thinking strings 283
- his wife is an understanding's or grown-up person 283
- is foolish 283
- killed by young Lion 283
- takes young Lion as a dog 283
- the First Bushman 283

!ko'-g !nuin-tara
- and her child, the Day's Heart child 862
- and her husband, the Day's Heart star 862
- and her younger sister, |xe-dde-yo'e 862
- and the Day's Heart star 862
- and the She-Hyena 862
- attacks her sister 862
- becomes a beast of prey 862
- has Lynx-hair 862
- her 'thinking strings are still standing' 862
- her 'thinking strings fall' 862
- her clothing and ornaments come off when she becomes a Lynx 862
- her memory leaves her 862
- her story 862
- how her sister and her husband capture her 862
- is poisoned 862
- is tranformed into a Lynx 862
- keeps her ear tufts 862
- lives in the reeds 862
- springs on her sister as a Lynx 862
- the Day's Heart star anoints her with the contents of a goat's stomach 862
- the Day's Heart star removes her Lynx-hair 862
- the She-Hyena deceives and wears her ornaments 862

!koranna
- and Bushman 1137
- and the blackness 1137
- why they posess cattle 1137

!koroken !koroken
- avoiding playing with its name 562
- bird 562
- brings bad news 562
- cuts a person's foot 562
- disrespecting 562
- its call 562
- knows evil 562
- knows things 562
- knows what happens far away 562
- makes people lame 562
- prohibitions relating to 562
- teachings about 562
- telephonus 562
- tells people things 562
- the consequences of mocking it 562
- the nature and habits of 562
- why it comes to people 562

!korro-ssin !ku
- a song of 977
- the 'Pit-making Bushmen' 977

!kotta-kkoe
- has a hole in his stomach 884
- he and his brother 'seeking go' for ostrich eggs 884
- his brother, ostrich eggs and Korannas 884
- his escape from the Korannas 884
- his stomach makes a '!yok !yok' noise 884
- his stomach projects from the ostrich eggs 884
- is a man of the Early Race 884
- is divided 884
- is not alive 884
- pretends to be dying 884
- sharpens a Crieboom branch and closes up the skin of his stomach 884
- swallows ostrich eggs 884
- tricks the Korannas 884

!ku dance
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- men nod and women clap in 862
- or game 862
- where the She-Hyena is exposed 862

!kuerre-!kuerre
- a bird 629
- its actions 629
- its appearance 629
- its diet 629
- its nature and habits 629
- the fluttering of its wings 629
- the |xam word for the action of its wings 629

!kuiten
- found near water 757
- is eaten by people 757
- is found in ||kabbo's country 757
- the bulbs of are eaten by people 757

!kuken !kakka !ani
- an Ostrich who is different 38
- and |kaggen's arrow 38
- eggs of 38
- one who talks 38
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen fights with 38

!kun
- !nanni and his relations 980
- and finding food 1043
- and prayers to the young moon 1043
- and the Makoba 1041
- and the young moon's story 1043
- and the |ka kue and the |nani in their country 1018
- and their country 1027
- and wife-beating 1043
- and wife-killing or uxoricide 1043
- Biriko 1041
- creation story of, told by Tamme 1057
- customs at death 1048, 1049
- different groups of 974, 976, 977, 1027
- dress after death 1049
- experiences of the -boys 1112
- fear the Makoba 985
- get ill on 'dacca' 1007
- groups of 980, 1041
- how Tamme was taken from his people 985
- Hu'-we, who is a Bushman and is also called |xue 1091
- hunt elephants to tusks trade for food with the Makoba 1007
- in !nanni and Tamme's country 974
- in !nanni's country 1007
- in Hereroland 948
- men, dress of 998
- names of different groups of 1041
- names of groups of 1027
- names of ‘different kinds’ given by Tamme 1092
- of !nanni's country divine events using a set of wooden pieces called |xu 1050
- people in Tamme's country respect the mantis and do not eat it 1060
- relations 1043
- song of the |kam-ssin !ku 976
- songs and customs 974
- story of the death of Bushmen 1057
- the !korro-ssin !ku or 'Pit-making Bushmen' 977
- the !korro-ssin !ku, or 'Pit-making Bushmen' 974
- the 'Ongova Bushmen' 948
- the actions of widows 1048
- the death of !nanni's uncle 1041
- the family 1043
- the groups that !nanni and Tamme belong to 1027
- the names of their countries 1027
- the peoples found in their country 968
- the peoples of their country 986
- the roles of men and women 1043
- the treatment of wives and children 1041
- the treatment of women by their husbands 1043
- the |kam-ssin !ku, or 'Sun Bushmen' 974
- their country 986
- their experiences with the other peoples of their country 985
- their marriages 1041
- their methods of making houses 1003
- their relations with other peoples in their country 1112
- their relations with others 1013, 1018, 1041
- their relations with the Makoba 1007
- their relations with the Makoba and the Ovambo 985
- their relations with the Ovambo and Ovaherero 986
- their relations with the |nani 1013
- use a set of divining pieces, or |xu 1042
- vocabulary 948
- vocabulary given by !nanni and Tamme to Jemima Bleek in 1879 2023
- what they call spirits or dreams 1020
- words 1151
- words given by !nanni and Tamme 948
- |kam-ssin !ku or 'Sun Bushmen' 976

!kuobba-an
- and ||kabbo's dream 268
- and ||kabbo's return 268
- staying with people who are different 268
- ||kabbo's wife 268

!kuommain |ka ||kau
- !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story 928, 928
- disappears into a flat stone 928
- he disappears into a flat stone 925
- is the Frog's husband 925, 928
- runs away 928
- the Beetle's smell makes him run away 928
- the Blue Crane searches for 925
- the Blue Crane snatches at him and misses 925
- the Blue Crane's in-law, or ||yen 925
- thinks his wife the Frog is pregnant 928

!kuppen
- 'a play it is, a women's play' 909
- how women imitate the sound of the horse by striking a kaross 909

!kwai !kwai
- a description of 615
- bird 615
- is burnt in the fire 615
- puts children in its net 615
- resembles the Duiker 615
- the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 615
- the appearance of 615
- the children and |kaggen roast it in the fire 615
- wants to kill the children 615
- was formerly a man 615
- |kaggen dreams of it 615

!kwai-!kwa
- and his fatal adventure with a leopard 483
- or Gemsbok Leg 483

!kweiten ta ||ken
- about her relations and their places 370
- and personal history of ≠kasin 111
- her family's place 370
- her father and story of Xurri ko and a lion 383
- her father killed the lion that killed Xurri ko 383, 383
- her genealogy 370
- her personal history 370, 438
- her relations were 'killed by sorcery' 438
- her sister | a khumm called by a lion 385
- is ≠kasin's wife 111
- Rachel 370, 438
- the giving of her name 438
- the names of her relations 370
- was given an orphan's name 438

!na !na'rishe
- a description of 978
- bird 978
- sings of the disappearance of the people from its country 978
- the habits and diet of 978
- the song of 978

!nabbe
- a tail-hair brush 672
- the 'Bushman pocket-handkerchief' 672
- the making of 672
- the preparation of tails for 672
- the tail-hair used in 672
- the types of hair used for 672
- the use of the Driedoorn stick in 672

!nana-an
- calling out to wounded game to make it die quickly 849
- calling to gemsbok 849
- calling to ostrich 849
- the custom of calling to the wounded springbok 849

!nanna-sse
- an explanation of 707
- and shooting springbok successfully 707
- and the actions of the man who shoots game 707
- and the hunting and killing of game 474
- and the treatment of bones 707
- hunting observances 474, 707, 709
- playing with the springbok's bones and skin makes a person ill 709
- respecting the game 707, 709
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- the treatment of springbok bones 709

!nanni
- '||nanni' 2023
- a story of his family 1041
- about his parents and siblings 959
- an aunt killed by elephant 982
- and his paternal grandfather, Karu 1047
- and the Makoba 1007
- and trading elephant tusks for food with the Makoba 1007
- he is a ||no !kun 1027
- his brother beats the drum in the trance dance but not his father 1001
- his country is called Kaku i ra 1027
- his drawing of |kui 1108
- his experience of the trance dance 1001
- his family tree 955
- his father ya ||ne's fight with his grandfather, Karu 1041
- his genealogy 972
- his grandfather Karu's father-in-law, ||namme 1041
- his grandfather told him about |xue 1014
- his mother feared the night 990
- his parent's and grandparent's countries 1041
- his paternal grandfather is Karu 1012
- his paternal grandfather Karu's prayer to the young moon 1043
- his paternal grandfather told him many things 1009
- his paternal grandmother beat a stone on the ground 1010
- his people 974
- his people get ill on dacca 1007
- his personal history 955, 959, 961, 964, 972, 974, 980, 982, 990, 999, 1001, 1007, 1027, 1041, 1047, 1053
- his relations 964, 980, 982
- his uncle's name was |un'ta 1041
- how his relations gathered Kai for poison 1053
- is a 'Sun Bushman', or 'sun child' 974
- names of his relations 955
- recites a prayer to the young moon 1040
- saw |xue when he was with the Herero 1012
- tells of |xue 1014
- the !kun of his country do not make pots 989
- the !kun of his country use pieces of wood called |xu for divining future events 1050
- the death and burial of his little brother 999
- the death of his uncle 1041
- the different people in his country 974
- the languages he speaks and understands 974
- the names of his close relations 972
- the names of his father and paternal grandfather 996
- the names of his grandparents 980
- the names of his relations 1041, 1053
- the names of his siblings 959, 961
- the origins of his grandparents 980
- was afraid of |xue and cried 1047
- what his father told him to eat and avoid 996
- what his father wore 998
- what his grandfather Karu told him about Hu'-we 1091
- what his grandfather told him about |xue 1012
- what his paternal grandfather Karu told him about |xue 1034
- what Karu told him about |xue 1047
- words and sentences given by him to Jemima Bleek in 1879 2023
- words given by 1151

!nauxa
- a 'Grass', or |nu'sa', Bushman 1122
- a memo from A. Martin 1125
- about his country 1122
- additional information about him from A. Martin 1125
- at the SA Museum 1122
- his 'Hottentot' companion, !khannumup 1122
- his genealogy 1122
- his other names 1122
- his personal history 1122, 1125
- his physical characteristics and measurements 1125
- his place 1122
- or Willem 1125
- or Willem, or !nau xama 1122
- photographed by Hermann at SA Museum 1122
- the doings of his people 1122
- the names of his relations 1122
- the names of mountains in his country 1122
- where he lived 1122

!naxane
- a plant 1047
- and Karu on |xue 1047
- given to !nanni to eat 1047
- plant 1022, 1028
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue becomes 1022, 1028

!nu !numma-!kuiten
- accounting for his name 890
- and !kotta koe, who was a man 890
- fetches and kills children who cry 890
- or White Mouth 890
- parents threaten children with 890
- swallows meat and eggs whole 890
- was formerly a beast of prey 890
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi told him about 890

!nu !nurussi
- ceremony performed with 792
- eats the child's illness 792
- is left alone after curing 792
- is not used again 792
- is placedopposite the side of the house 792
- is tied on the child's throat 792
- is used living 792
- takes away illness 792
- the Brachycerus, or African ground weevil 792
- used to cure little children 792

!nuin-|kui-ten
- and Dia!kwain's ancestors 456
- and Dia!kwain's father Xaa-ttin 458
- and the broken string 459
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- and Xaa-ttin's song about the broken string 460
- became a lion 458
- calls Xaa-ttin in his sleep 460
- causes illness 460
- concealed his lion's body 458
- feels he is about to die 458
- feels the string is broken 458
- gives rain 456
- his actions 458
- his actions in the form of an animal 458
- his character 458
- his magical expeditions 458
- his personal history 458
- his place 458
- his transformation 458
- is dead 456
- killed a 'Boer's' ox when a lion 458
- leads out the rain-bull 460
- taught Xaa-ttin songs and magic 458
- the rainmaker 456
- the rainmaker or rain-sorcerer 459, 460
- walked about at night 458
- wants to be remembered 458
- was an angry man 458
- was killed by a 'Boer' commando 458
- what people say when they see his spoor 458
- who was a rainmaker 458
- who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- Xaa-ttin asks him for rain 456
- Xaa-ttin's song about 459

!nwa !koro
- resembles Xu gwai in a photograph seen by |han≠kass'o 912

!xen
- and the steenbok 799
- Dirk 799
- fears the steenbok 799
- his personal history 799
- misses his aim at the steenbok 799
- throws dust in the steenbok's eyes 799

!xugen-ddi
- beats the game to prevent it being killed 490
- game once tame: why it grew wild 490

!yoa-ka-ttu
- and the Blue Crane and the girls 888
- breaks wind 888
- cuts off the Blue Crane's shoulder and head 888
- is a man of the Early Race 888
- lies in the !khi tree 888
- or 'Bad-smelling-mouth' 888
- runs after the girls to kill them 888
- smells bad, like a 'decayed thing' 888
- stabs the Blue Crane with his assegai 888
- tries to kill the Blue Crane who does not die 888

aardwolf
- and Anteater's laws 192
- and porcupine hunting 729
- and story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- and the porcupine are kua kua ssi-kuiten, or things that people do not perceive 729
- habits of 192
- hunting of with a dog 161
- its hair used in the making of the |khu or the 'Bushman soup spoon' 585
- marry own kind 192
- names for 585
- or Proteles 192
- Proteles 161, 585, 729
- |gipp 161, 585, 729

Aardwolf
- Proteles 660
- Striped Jackal 660
- |gipp 660
- |ku 660
- |kwammana, the Ichneumon and |kaggen visit its house 660

abuse
- of |gui-an by her mistress, Trina de Klerk 773
- of |xam workers by their masters and mistresses 773

Adam Kleinhardt
- his personal history 2

address
- 'a jackal appears to be coming' 815
- a man respects his wife's mother 1079
- a prayer addressed to the Moon 464
- actions performed during 464
- and dreams and rain 811
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and rainmaking 578
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and respect in the family 1080
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- asking for rain and rainmaking 811
- by a man with a good heart who does not scold it 852
- by old men 815
- for the springbok as 'beast of prey' 705
- for women and men 1079
- how the people imitate the sounds of the ewes and 'lambs' in the herd when hunting 705
- joyful, to rejoice in an abundance of food 880
- mode of, to the rain 815
- modes of addressing the rain 811
- of rainmakers to the rain 578
- of the rainmakers to the rain 452
- of the wind and hunting 701
- or call to the rain by rainmakers 811
- or prayer to the star Canopus and Sirius 322
- rituals and actions performed when addressing the rain 452
- terms of address for in-laws 1080
- terms of, for in-laws 1079
- the use of the terms ≠khumm and |ui sau 1079
- the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- to Sirius and Canopus 880
- to the angry rain 452, 852
- to the clouds 815
- to the rain 852
- to wife of Day's Heart star 152
- used by women and men 1079
- what old men say to the rain 852
- what people say to the north wind 647
- what people say to the rain 815
- what the people say to make it fall 811
- what the people say to the ||kerri or locust bird 657
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647
- |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi's to the rain 852
- |han≠kass'o's step-grandmother, Ttuai-an, calls out to the stars 880

addressing
- and calling the herd 706
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706

adornment
- and protection against rain 377
- as protection from the rain and lightning 378
- beads 801
- by maidens 378
- chain 806
- how maidens paint young men 378
- identified by |han≠kass'o in rock painting copy no. 2 801
- jewellery 801, 806
- made of bone 806
- of 'Har River Bushmen' 806
- of men's backs, women's cheeks and karosses 377
- of the 'Mountain Bushmen' 806
- of young men 378
- of young men by maidens 377
- ornament 806
- painting with ||ka or 'rooi klip' 377
- the !k'anni, an ornament worn by men and women 841
- thong 806
- with ||hara and tto 711
- worn by groups of people 801
- |han≠kass'o's description of in rock painting copy no. 5 806

adults
- do not eat fish 903
- do not eat little birds and mice 903
- do not eat pigs 903
- food eaten and avoided by 903

African ground weevil
- ceremony performed with 792
- or the !nu !nurussi or Brachycerus 792
- used to heal a sick child 792

afternoon
- 'It is afternoon's mouth' 936
- 'It is the side of afternoon' 936
- and greetings among the |xam 936

Agama lizard
- !kau 678
- !kau or !khau 768
- !khau 905
- !khau or !kau 691, 696, 698
- !khau or kochelman 613
- and the !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head 905
- broken in two by the mountain 696
- his journey to a pool in the red sandhills 697
- or !khau 906
- remarks by |han≠kass'o on the story of the death of the !khau 697
- song of 906
- song of the !khau's child 691
- the !khau carried off by a Lion 768
- the !khau lizard and the rain–clouds 613
- the !khau or !kau 697
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- the death of the !khau 696
- the kochelman 696, 697, 698
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the song of the Agama lizard 906
- who takes the !kain's head's hair 905
- |xam names of 678

Aliwal North
- four |xam from at Breakwater Convict Station 1118

alligators
- and Da's capture and the death of his parents 1116
- and the death of the children put into the water by the Makoba 1116
- crocodiles 1116

Amsterdam Battery
- words and sentences given by xu gwai there 573

ancestors
- and how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- and the apparition seen by Dia!kwain and his people when returning from his wife's funeral 532
- and what happens after death 532
- are dreamed of 854
- concerning apparitions 532
- dead sorcerers or rainmakers 456
- life after death 854
- old people 854
- spirit–-people 854
- Xaa-ttin prays to his for rain 456

anger
- given by |han≠kass'o 684
- |xam expressions for 684

angry actions
- and the fights of |kaggen 88
- foolishness 88
- of the 'grown-up person' 88
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- understanding 88
- wisdom 88
- |kaggen's 88

angry man
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212

animal
- !kun name of 1070, 1087
- about the porcupine 412
- accounting for the appearance of the korhaan 405
- and why the chameleon must not be killed 356
- avoiding eating the porcupine's neck 412
- called the dzana 1087
- calls imitated in the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- hair and parts used in tools made by the |xam 57
- imitating 705
- names of body parts given by |han≠kass'o 920
- noises of 705
- or bird 1087
- rain's things 356
- springbok ewes and their lambs' cries 705
- the |no eaten and respected by the !kun 1070

animal clicks
- and ways of speaking |xam 326

animals
- !kun names of 964, 998, 1005, 1045, 1063, 1073
- !kun names of, that |xue becomes 1033
- 'angry folk' 262
- 'thoroughly' die 114
- -spirit 1102
- a description of 794
- a snake found near a grave 1101
- accounting for appearance of 45
- accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts 401
- accounting for behaviour of 45
- accounting for nature, habits and appearance of 256
- accounting for the appearance of the ostrich 406
- accounting for the appearance of the porcupine 452
- accounting for the appearance, nature and habits of baboons 555
- accounting for the habits and appearance of hares 464
- accounting for the nature and habits of quaggas and baboons 540
- accounting for the porcupine's quills and appearance 453
- accounting for the roar of the lion 406
- accounting for their behaviour and appearance 892
- and 'Boers' 158
- and 'great hole's' things 262
- and Anteater's laws 149, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 198, 199, 200
- and Day's Heart 45
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 262, 266
- and Day's Heart star's discourses 256
- and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- and healing 794
- and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain 355
- and insects 964
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and Rainmaking 125
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and story of Hyena 189
- and story of Jackal 190
- and story of Silver Jackal 191
- and story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- and swallows 521
- and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- and the Baboons who ate human beings 555
- and the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind who became the Porcupine 453
- and the Early Race 555
- and the game once tame: why it grew wild 490
- and the Moon and the little Hare 66
- and the rain in !kun country 1066
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the story of the Ratel and the Waterskilpad 403
- and what people eat and wear 200
- and |xue 1045
- and ||kum'm or rain-clouds 1066
- Baboons and Quagga are people 540
- baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- beasts of prey 260, 262
- calls of imitated in the singing of the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- cobra 740
- death and respect for certain 1101
- death and resurrection of 66
- death of 114
- description of 158
- descriptions of 964, 1063
- diet of 45
- diets of 266
- doings of 266
- Dutch names of 158
- eaten 794
- eaten !nanni and Tamme's country 1000
- eaten and avoided by the !kun 996
- eaten as food 66, 1063
- eaten by !kun men 956
- eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- eaten by people 200
- eaten by peoples of Damaraland 951
- eaten by the !kun 951, 956, 975, 1005, 1063
- eating hyena and lion 996
- eating of 158
- edible 964
- eggs 163
- found in !kun country 964
- found in !nanni and Tamme's country 1005
- found in Bushmanland 794
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 794
- found near graves 1101
- game 158
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- given by !nanni and Tamme 922
- given by |han≠kass'o 576, 671, 795, 922
- given by |han≠kass'o at the SA Museum 608
- given by |han≠kass'o at the South African Museum 651
- great water tortoise 740
- habits and diet of 1005
- habits of 158, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192
- how the porcupine came by the quills on its back and neck 452
- hunting 163
- hunting behaviour of 45
- hunting of 158
- hunting, preparing and eating ostrich, 'chiansbok', springbok, khoran, hare and jackal 163
- in the Katkop dialect 107
- Jan Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- lions 260
- magic things 521
- marriage of 45, 197, 198, 199
- marry own kind 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 198, 199
- more about |xue 1033
- must marry their own kind 256
- names and descriptions of, given by |han≠kass'o 1127
- names of 154, 158, 576, 608, 651, 671, 790, 795, 922, 951, 996
- names of given at SA Museum 107, 145, 181
- names of given by !nanni and Tamme 1000
- names of given by !nanni and Tamme at SA Museum 949
- names of given by ≠kasin 333
- names of in |xam and Koranna 107
- names of, given by |a!kunta in the SA Museum 31
- nature and habits of 198, 199, 200
- of the dead 1101, 1102
- poisonous 158, 964
- puffadder 740
- Rain animals 125
- respected by the !kun and not eaten 975
- skins of fox, elephant, springbok used for making veldskoen 8
- skins of, worn by !kun men 998
- sleeping habits 158
- speech of 66
- spirit-animals 1101
- spirit-animals are found near graves 1102
- spirit-antelope 1101
- spirit-snake 1101, 1102
- that are 'wind's things' 234, 235
- that are different 260
- that are feared 740
- that are handsome 262
- that are to be eaten must not be played with or taken as pets 698
- that are wild 234, 235, 236
- that can talk 226
- that have 'thoughts' 226
- that live in the Orange River and kill the |xam there 513
- that stand upright like men 226
- the 'other' names given to anteater, springbok, ostrich, eland, hartebeest 868
- the Anteater's laws 197
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188, 197
- the appearance of 262
- the doings of 226
- the doings of lynx, the ||kaitchi, wild dog, vulture, springbok, lion, crow and hyena 266
- the dzo 1045
- the eating of 154, 163
- the giving and uttering of their names 868
- the habits of cattle 579
- the healing of 794
- the hunting of by the |xam 45
- the Jackal's speech 266
- the Korhaan marries his elder sister 199
- the Lion and the Ostrich's fight over the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- the Lions and the Ostriches 406
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- the names of 794
- the names of different in !kun country 975
- the names of, in !kun country 956
- the names used by different members of the group 868
- the nature and habits of 197, 262
- the nature and habits of various 266
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the origin of the hare's 'mouth-scar' or hare-lip 464
- the preparation and cooking of 964
- the rain's 740
- the rain's things 355, 452, 453, 521, 794
- the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 578, 580, 581, 582
- the Rain-bull 125
- the understanding and foolishness of 226
- the uses for 794
- the Water cow 125
- the water tortoise, or !khou 582
- the |khuken-|u |unu or caterpillar 581
- the |numa 1045
- their different names 868
- their doings and the Anteater's curse 892
- their habits, diet and marriages 149
- tortoise 740
- tortoise, puffadder, porcupine are the rain's things 411
- water's things 740
- when people became 541
- when they were people 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 540, 555
- which are 'angry' 266
- which have 'thoughts that talk' 266
- which kill people 158
- which laugh at |xue as a leopard 1062
- who think they are people 540
- why Baboons were cursed 555
- why Lions and Ostriches became animals 541
- why the baboon sounds like a man 541
- why the ratel's claws are long 403
- wild 1063
- woodpigeons, an owl, a korubo and some ||kuorres laugh at the leopard 1062
- |xam names for 964
- |xam names of 12
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- ætiology of 45

ant larvae
- 'Bushman rice' 659, 662, 768
- about 'Bushman Rice' 299
- and the !khau carried off by a Lion 768
- and |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- eaten by |xam 659
- or 'Bushman rice' 320
- the !khau digs for 768
- the digging out of 662
- what the 'Bushman rice' does when the ||xo hai stars come out 320

Anteater
- accounting for the nature and habits of the anteater 892
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and Lynx 149, 408
- and Lynx, Partridge and Springbok 373
- and Springbok and Lynx 197
- and the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- antbear 188
- before its laws beasts of prey were people 763
- buries people alive, collapsing earth 408
- curses and is cursed by the Lynx 892
- deceives the foolish Springbok mother 892
- digs 'Bushman rice' 373
- enters earth 373
- follows underground 408
- gets heartsore when listening to !kummi 408
- goes into earth 408
- goes under the ground 892
- her curse 892
- her hole 892
- her messages 198
- is caught by the Lynx 892
- is killed by Lynx 373
- its curse 763
- its laws 197, 763
- its Lynx is stolen 408
- laws of 149
- laws regarding the habits, diet and marriage of animals 149
- married elder brother 198
- rescues Lynx 408
- sayings of 149
- steals Springbok child 197
- steals young Springbok 373
- the Anteater's laws 188
- the Anteater's story 373
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188
- the doings of 373
- the Lynx is her 'heart's child' or pet 408
- the story of the Lynx and the Anteater 408
- wants a female Springbok child 892
- will go at night 892

anteater
- 'fights along' 738
- and the porcupine's hole 738
- burrows like a scorpion spider 738
- its habits and actions 738
- its hole becomes the porcupine's 738
- its method of making its hole 738
- its other name 868

Anteater's laws
- accounting for appearance of Korhaan 199
- and Korhaan burnt in fire 199
- and story of Hyena 189
- and story of Jackal 190
- and story of Silver Jackal 191
- and story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- and the Anteater's curse 763
- and what people eat and wear 200
- beasts of prey were once people 763
- regarding the habits, diet and marriage of animals 149
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188, 197
- the habits, marriages and diet of all animals 198
- the Korhaan marries his elder sister 199
- |a!kunta's version 149
- ||kabbo's second version 198

Anteater’s Laws
- 'the Knorhaan who married his sister' 405
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405

antelope
- a !kun song about 969
- a spirit-antelope 1101
- and spirits of the dead 1101
- is not killed when near a grave 1101
- not a mere antelope 1101
- that is feared 1101
- the song of the mother of the little buck 969

Antelope
- and the creation of the Bushmen 1092
- and the Hare and |xue 1092
- the Hare throws them into a forest country for the Bushmen to snare and eat 1092
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- they created themselves 1092

Anthing
- and the names of |xam who went with him to the Cape in 1863 30
- names of |xam who went with him to the Cape 45

ants
- and the song of the ||ku 953
- eaten by the ||ku 953

ant–larvae
- 'Bushman rice' 673
- eaten by the |kitten-|kitten bird 673

apparition
- accounting for the appearance of 532
- and death 532
- and Dia!kwain 532
- and sorcerers 532
- appears when sorcerers carry person quite away 532
- does not want to go away and leave people 532
- is a thing which is different 532
- is the different part of a person 532
- is the part that thinks of people 532
- its outer skin looks at people 532
- lion preceded by, which resembles a real lion 626
- of a child 532
- on the salt pan 532
- or ghost 532
- resembles a person 532
- seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral 532
- seen by Mansse 532
- seen by ||kabbo 88
- takes off its skin 532
- teachings about 532
- that appears before the lion does 626
- the appearance of 532
- the coming of lion 626
- the forms it takes 532
- the spectre-lion 88
- wants to be seen 532
- when the lion's head comes into sight 626
- when they appear 532
- which resembled Dia!kwain's wife 532
- |xam beliefs about 532

apron
- the dream's 1002

armpit
- and a note on the First Bushmen 297
- and the creation of the Sun 297
- children are sent to throw the sleeping Sun into the sky 206
- of the Moon 179
- of the Sun 297
- Sun's 37, 206
- |kaggen and the Moon 37

arrow
- a reed used in the making of 588
- actions with one with which an eland has been shot 475
- and !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and how the Ichneumon discovered what |kaggen did with the honey 351
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and the hunter who stepped on his own that was poisoned 921
- and the man's accident while hunting gemsbok 921
- and the manner in which people 'twirling kindle fire' 882
- and the |kwae substance used for securing arrowheads 589
- and ||kuanni juice 589
- arrowhead 589
- arrowheads 588
- baboons are ashamed of holding 'girl's arrows' 548
- baboons shoot back one fired at them 548
- burial and avenging a death 1114
- called |nu'bbo 1080
- feathered, and poison 661
- for shooting springbok 588
- invisible 720
- its head 588
- its shaft is divided into two sticks and used to make fire 882
- killing a wife with a poisoned and wooden one 1080
- looks like a little knife 588
- making of poisons for 1053
- name of 1080
- of the sorcerer, who is like a lion 720
- poison gathered and prepared by the !kun 1053
- poison smeared on its head 347
- poisoned 588, 661
- poisoned used for shooting game 347
- poisons used by the !kun 1053
- preventing baboons from trying to shoot people 548
- sorcerer's 720
- that bewitches 720
- that causes illness and death 720
- the 'snoring' out of an 720
- the adhesive substance called |kwae used in arrowmaking 589
- the customs of |kaggen's 351
- the different parts of 588
- the making of 588
- the Mason Wasp, or !gabbaken-!gabbaken, shoots his wife with one intended for the Hare 676
- the mixing of poison for 347
- the name of an 661
- the name of one used to shoot thieves 1082
- the use of an 661
- the |nu'bbo 1082
- used by the !kun for shooting game 1053
- used for hunting springbok 661
- used to shoot 'good–looking' people 720
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen's comes back at him 221
- |kaggen's turn on him and cheat him 38
- |uma relates the death of one of his relatives who was killed by one 1114
- |xam names for the parts of 588
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue's child shoots him in the eye 1045
- |xue's father shoots him with 1038
- |xue's father-in-law shoots |xue's father with one, killing him 1045

arrowhead
- and witteklip 588
- for shooting springbok 588
- made of iron 588
- made of stone 588
- the making of 588
- the stone used to make 588

arrowheads
- and arrowmaking 589
- the adhesive substance called |kwae used for securing 589

arrows
- !kun names of different 1041
- 'missing the game' results in 'when we shoot our death' 708
- 'possessing' 706
- an exchange of poison 309
- and !nanna-sse 707, 709
- and 'missing the game' 707
- and feathers 851
- and reeds 851
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and the actions of the springbok 701
- and the use of a whetstone for polishing the arrow-head 851
- and the use of fire 851
- and the use of ostrich feathers 918
- and the use of roots of ostrich wing feathers 919
- and the use of sinews, or !nui 851
- and the use of the !kui, or digging-stick stone 851
- and the wounds they make 250
- and unsuccessful springbok hunting after the death of a companion 716
- another man takes a dead man's arrows 993
- are 'beasts of prey' 701
- are marked with |kwae and tto 850
- are placed on a bush 851
- arrow-making 851
- different kinds of 250
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706
- exchange of 707
- exhausting when hunting springbok 706
- for shooting gemsbok and ostrich have a barblet 919
- for shooting springbok have no barblet 919
- for springbok are clean and handsome 919
- gemsbok's 919
- good and bad 701
- marked for recognition and identification 850
- methods of shooting 801
- names for the different parts of 851
- of sorcerers 717
- ostrich's 919
- places to shoot springbok on their bodies 706
- poisoned 851
- precautions taken with those that are poisoned 851
- rituals performed with 716
- rock painting copy no. 2 801
- sharpening the head 851
- shooting with poisoned 707
- shot springbok try and dislodge 706
- smoking them with buchu 716
- sorcerers shoot with invisible 717
- that 'miss' 701
- that bewitch people 717
- that cause illness, pain and weariness 717
- that fly 'nicely' 701
- that miss 716
- the 'arrow's mouth' 851
- the 'snoring' out of 717
- the 'working' or making of 851
- the barblets used to catch on the flesh, or ||kuken 918
- the barblets, or ||kuken used to catch on the animal's flesh 919
- the cutting and attaching of the feathers for 851
- the death of !nanni's uncle 1041
- the dividing, shaping and straightening of the reeds 851
- the implements used to make 851
- the making of 339, 918, 919
- the marking of 850
- the name of a good arrow 701
- the name of one that has no poison 919
- the name of the head is !gaura 851
- the name of the shaft is |ßkauro 851
- the number used to hunt springbok 647
- the poisoning of 851, 918, 919
- the rubbing of the reed shaft with |kuai juice 851
- the smoking and colouring of the shaft 851
- the springbok's are magic and invisible 709
- the stones used in making of 339
- the wounds caused by 717
- used for shooting springbok in the wind 647
- used to shoot springbok 850
- ways of addressing 701
- which enter the skin and cause illness 709
- which will miss the game 708
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647
- ||kho is put in the arrow's mouth 851
- ||kurru, or ||kutten-||kutten used in making 339

artefacts
- in |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- making of 38
- |xam cooking implements 38

ash
- and creation of Milky Way 285
- becomes Milky Way 285
- the girl who made the Milky Way by throwing them into the sky 285
- wood ash 285

ashes
- and !kun customs at death 983
- and Tamme's father's aching heart 983
- sleeping in 983
- Tamme's father becomes white with 983
- Tamme's father slept there 983

astronomy
- and the |xam 108
- of the |xam 128
- of |xam 366
- the names of stars given by ≠kasin and Dia!kwain 366
- |xam names of stars, constellations and planets 128

Auma
- a 'Hottentot' 946
- his other names 946
- his personal history 946
- in the service of Mr Conrath 946
- names of his relations 946
- Philip, or Jaco'bama 946
- words and sentences given by 946

avoidance
- of certain foods by adults 903
- of places where jackals and hyenas have passed water 896
- of saying the lion's name 1008
- of saying the lion's name at night 829

baboon
- act like people 540
- and death 553
- and presentiment 553
- and the illnesses of people 553
- and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- Baboon taught people the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- Baboons and Quagga are people 540
- calls a person's name 550
- calls the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- can tell when death threatens 553
- cuts made on the bow when one has been killed 545
- does not feel pain 553
- does not get ill 553
- does not want to die 553
- ensuring its 'eye hollow' leaves the bow 545
- feels its body 553
- is a thing which can die 553
- its 'eye hollow' in the bow 545
- its actions 545
- its actions are like a person's 545
- its bad influence, actions or curse 545
- its curse on the killing bow 545
- its death brings bad influence 545
- its nature and habits 550, 553
- its Ssho |oa and hair is used as a charm against illness 553
- keeps Ssho |oa in its cheek 553
- knows our names 550
- knows things 550
- knows when danger approaches 553
- lives long 553
- makes 'clouds' like a man's when killed 545
- passing it on the hunting-ground 550
- protects people from illness 553
- removing its 'actions' from a bow 545
- severe illness kills it 553
- smell like people 540
- sounds like a person 541
- Ssho |oa tells its body things 553
- tells others about the person passing by 550
- the death of 553
- the hunting of 545
- the marks made on the bow are the baboon's 'teeth' 545
- the treatment of the bow used to kill one 545
- their appearance, nature and habits 540
- their organs are like the quagga's 540
- their parts resemble a person's 540
- they and the quagga were formerly people 540
- think they are people 540
- understands like a man 541
- understands the speech of people 541
- was formerly a person 541
- was once a man 545
- what Dia!kwain's father told him about killing one 545
- what is said when one dies 553
- what it does when it sees a person 550
- why it understands 541

Baboon
- and the Early Race 558
- and the young girl's flesh 558
- eats the woman because she is fat 558
- fears the Quagga's greatness 558
- his mother-in-law 767
- his song to the new maiden 767
- is a 'bad man' 767
- kills the Quagga 558
- sings a song that transforms the girl into a Baboon 767
- sneezes when the girl says his name 767
- the foolish girl marries 767
- the girl says his name 767
- the name of 767
- the punishment of 558
- the woman who was killed by the Baboons 558
- was a person of the Early Race 767
- was formerly a person 558
- who ate a human being 558

baboons
- 'Berg Bushmen' eat 224
- 'Flat Bushmen' do not eat 224
- 'Hottentot boy carried off by Baboons' 7
- a description of their appearance 551
- a family of 542
- adventure of |khui- |a with a family of 542
- and a girl's things 552
- and sticks of Ssho |oa 549
- and success hunting 544
- and the early morning 544
- and women's things 548, 552
- and |khui- |a 542
- and ||xabbiten ||xabbiten 551
- are ashamed of holding 'girl's arrows' 548
- are not good people 544
- are numerous 551
- are referred to as 'hipbone' 544
- Baboons taught people the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- dance the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- defending a dog from 552
- defending and protecting a dog from 552
- fear a girl's dog 552
- fear guns 551
- fear white men 551
- girls make them ashamed 552
- have wives 549
- how they shoot back an arrow fired at them 548
- how they shoot people 548
- how to make them drop an arrow 548
- hunting them with dogs 552
- know the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- know things 549
- leave a girl's dog alone 552
- making them ashamed 548, 552
- must not be answered when they speak 544
- one speaks to |khui- |a 542
- people fear saying their name 544
- raise a Koranna child 7
- resemble and imitate people 559
- should not be spoken with 544
- sing and dance the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- sound like people 549
- speak Bushman, and have wives 549
- speak |xam 544, 549
- Ssho |oa tells them things 549
- steal a Koranna child 7
- take a Koranna child 7
- talk to people 544, 549
- that speak 542
- the eating of 224
- the hunting of 542
- the male weeps for the dead female 542
- the mother hides her baby in a rock 542
- the name of their head 551
- the nature and habits of 551
- their actions when ashamed 548
- their actions with dogs 552
- their hierarchy 551
- their name must not be spoken 544
- their nature and habits 542, 544, 548, 549, 552, 559
- throw arrows back at the hunter 548
- understand people 549
- understand people's speech 542
- understand what people are saying 544
- understand |xam 544
- use Ssho |oa 549
- want dogs to fear it 552
- want pieces of ||xabbiten ||xabbiten 551
- watch people hold the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- what people call them to avoiding saying their name 544
- what the people say to 552
- what to say to one who wants to shoot a person 548
- will not look straight at a girl's dog 552

Baboons
- accounting for the appearance of baboons 555
- and the Early Race 555, 556
- and the son of |kaggen, and |kaggen 666
- are cursed 555
- are strangers, or 'people who are different' 666
- Baboon was cursed to be a baboon 555
- baboon was formerly a person 555
- Baboon who deceived people with human flesh 555
- Baboon who sat on hot stones 555
- Baboon's tail was burnt in a fire 555
- kill |kaggen's son 666
- play with !gaunu-tsaxau's eyeball 666
- question !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- the Baboon remembers its burning in the fire 555
- the nature and habits of baboons 555
- the punishment of 555
- the woman eaten by 556
- their language or 'special' speech 666
- who ate a human being 556
- who ate human beings 555
- who ate the Quagga woman 556
- |kaggen's war, or fight with 666

backbone
- about sorcerers 396
- and the Moon pierced by the Sun 11
- of sorcerer 396
- of the Moon 11

bag
- a man carries away the ostrich in 15
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and dress after death 1049
- and the man who shot springbok 707
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- belonging to the dead Bushmen 1057
- creation of illness and death 1057
- dead man's head rests on his 1049
- for Ssho |oa 312
- made from a springbok's tail-skin 707
- made of sinew 15
- of illness 1057
- of the dead man 1049
- of the Hare 1057
- rituals for successful shooting 707
- sack 15
- springbok skin sack 45
- the Day's Heart's 45
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- used for Ssho |oa 309
- used for ||hara and tto 711
- |xue makes Ovaherero and carries them in a small 1056
- |xue's 1036
- |xue's small 1056
- |xue's son makes Bushmen and carries them in his 1056
- |xue's son's 1056
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

bags
- , nets and names and descriptions of things worn 391
- and the creation of the Bushmen 1092
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- |xue's and the Hare's 1092

band
- and a review of the parade 883
- military 883
- the people who played 883

barter
- and |han≠kass'o's explanation of rock painting copy no. 2 801
- by different groups of the |xam 801
- Tsatsi given a dog by |gappem-ttu in exchange for a kaross 745

bartering
- and ostriches 222
- for poison 338
- for tobacco 222
- of ostrich feathers 222
- with white men 222

baskets
- an ostrich bone is used for piercing 57
- and tools used by the |xam 57

Bastaards
- in |han≠kass'o's dream 831

Bastard
- 'Bastaard' 646
- all came out of one hole 1147
- and Dia!kwain's relations 117
- and Dia!kwain's wife 117
- and sneezing 215
- and the |xam 646
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- Bastaards' names for the |xam's places 699
- does not give food 'liberally' 646
- the name of a 646
- ||goo-ka-!kui's master is a 646

bat
- a belief about the bat and the porcupine 409
- goes along with porcupine 409
- its nature and habits 409
- people must watch it 409
- returns to hole with porcupine 409

beads
- identified by |han≠kass'o in rock painting copy no. 2 801
- made of ostrich eggshell 801
- that resemble the Caama fox's eyes 801

beast of prey
- !ko'-g !nuin-tara becomes a Lynx 862
- !nu !numma-!kuiten was formerly a 890
- 'angry folk' 262
- 'great hole's' things 262
- about the lion who carries away and kills a man and the search for the lost man 228
- actions of 424
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and Day's Heart star's discourses 262
- and sorcerers 639
- and the actions of the game 424
- and the crying of the wind 537
- and the game that takes hunters to their deaths 424
- and the lion's dream 425
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- catches people in their sleep 537
- comes for people at their houses 537
- comes in strong wind 537
- doings of 262
- eating and hunting lynx 677
- fetches kills children who cry 890
- is a wind's thing 537
- is different 198
- its doings 384
- its magic powers 384
- lion is 384, 424, 425
- lynx is 677
- Lynx-mother is 262
- makes a strong wind 537
- makes people sleepy 384
- rain's clouds resemble 452
- respecting 421
- teachings about 537
- the lion 537
- the nature and habits of 537
- the strong wind hides sound of its approach 537
- the wind calls it and tells it where people are 537
- walks about for a reason 537
- walks about with the wind 537
- what parts of game should not be eaten by children 424
- |kannu the rainmaker is 639

beasts of prey
- a wind which is a 701
- about sorcerers 396
- actions of 62
- advice about leopard-hunting 483
- an arrow which is a 701
- and Day's Heart 45
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and taking care while hunting 442
- and the actions of game 427
- and the actions of springbok 427
- and the Anteater's laws 763
- and the doings of the jackals 263
- and the Early Race 763
- and the Lion used as a dog 283
- and the springbok's story 427
- and those who 'walk in misfortune' 442
- and wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- animals that are 45
- animals which are 'different' 260
- are different 283
- doings of 62
- leopard hunting and the fatal adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- lions and leopards 260
- lions are 283
- people fear 283
- sorcerers become 396, 458
- teachings about 427
- the game leads hunters to 427
- the lion 431
- the nature and habits of 442
- the owl and the black crow 431
- their nature and habits 431
- their power over the Sun 442
- wait for hunters to return home 442
- walk at night 62
- warnings of 431
- were once people 763
- why they became animals 763

beating
- and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- Dia!kwain beats his children 119
- of !goe !kweitentu 38
- of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- of |kaggen 38
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38

beating a stone on the ground
- !nanni's paternal grandmother did this 1010
- and !nanni's maternal grandmother 1010
- and praying for rain 1010
- makes the lightning or rain go into the water 1010
- makes the rain fall 1010
- protects people from lightning 1010
- the women say 'Fall into the water!' 1010
- women do it but not men 1010

beating the bushes
- the stick used in 647
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647

beatings
- a description of 773
- observed by |han≠kass'o 773
- of |gui-an by her mistress, Trina de Klerck 773
- of |xam workers by white masters and mistresses 773
- received by |gui-an or Dootje 773
- with reeds 773

beds
- and Heron's song 85
- and the white splinter used for scraping skins 85
- made from springbok skin 85
- of the |xam 85
- scraping skins for 85

bee
- !guonni is at the bee's hole 519
- and !gaunu 519
- and Crow's story 380
- healing a spider bite with its honey 9
- its urine, water is sweet 380

bees
- !goin-!goin used for calling bees and finding honey 598
- and honey 272
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and reasons for colour of various animals 392
- and seasons 272
- and |kaggen 392
- expressions for the flight of 685
- make honey 392
- regarding the expressions |guobba ||a, and !kwiten ||a 685
- the food they make 392

Beetle
- !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story 928
- and the river bed 753
- and |kaggen and the Mice 753
- called dju 928
- flies and walks 928
- goes into the Frog's vomit 928
- her smell frightens away !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- is killed by the Striped Mouse 753
- its fights with the Mouse 753
- kills the Mice 753
- resembles |kaggen 928
- smells like vomit 928
- wants to marry !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- was formerly a man of the Early Race 753
- |kaggen's dream of 753

behaviour
- and anger 547
- and cursing 547
- and disagreeable actions 547
- bad 547
- customs relating to 547
- expressions relating to 547
- what is said when actions are disagreeable or 'not nice' 547

Berg Bushmen
- eat baboons 224
- live in mountains 224
- their diet 224

berries
- and preparation of the springbok's ears for dancing rattles 600
- called ||kerri put in dried springbok's ears 600

berry
- and Heron's song 85
- Krieboom 85

bewitching
- and the Lion star 164
- by new maiden 164

bird
- !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head, and put it on his own 905
- !kun name of 979, 1038, 1062, 1087
- !kun names of 1039
- !kwai !kwai resembles the Duiker 615
- a !kun song about 978, 979
- a description of 1084, 1085, 1089
- a parrot seen at Mowbray and commented on by |han≠kass'o 891
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and stars and death 531
- and the |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his brother-in-law 838
- and throwing stones at locusts 915
- called !gauka 1038
- called !kuara 1039
- called Goba-|nua-me or 'Makoba-boils me' 1084
- called the dzana 1087
- called the Hamerkop tells news of death 531
- called the sauko 966
- called |nu'she 1085
- called ||kanna-tatta 1039
- called ≠kagara, who was formerly a man 900
- called ≠xo gure 1089
- calls at sunrise 1085
- Day's Heart and 45
- eaten by Tamme 1089
- eaten by the !kun 1089
- eaten by the Makoba 1084
- found in !kun country 952, 966
- found in Bushmanland 723
- found in the Makoba country 1084
- how sorcerers sometimes assume the form of a jackal or of a bird 455
- is eaten by !kun children 1085
- is feared by lizards 1085
- its behaviour when it is a sorcerer 455
- its call 1084
- its cry 1084
- its cry or call 1085
- name of 562
- or animal 1087
- pau 198
- song of the Ngogan-a 971
- song of the sho sho 952
- song of the ≠ne≠nebbi, or woodpigeon 965
- sorcerers watch over their people in its form 455
- that eats small buck 966
- that eats the locust 631
- the !kain, formerly a person of the Early Race 905
- the !ke tsa'ba 973
- the !koroken !koroken or the telephonus 562
- the !kuerre-!kuerre 629
- the !kun name for 1084, 1085, 1089
- the !kwai !kwai 615, 765
- the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 615
- the !na !na'rishe 978
- the appearance of 1084, 1085, 1089
- the appearance of the ≠kagara 900
- the appearance of the ≠kainyatara 898
- the bam-bam 1062
- the behaviour and habits of 1084, 1085
- the explanation of its name 1084
- the Hamerkop or Scopus umbretta 531
- the Koro-tuiten 659
- the kwa kwara, bustard, black koran, korhaan malkop or Eupodotis afra 605, 606
- the locust bird 631, 657, 915
- the locust bird or the ||kerri 784
- the locust bird or ||kerri 916
- the Ngogan-a 971
- the owl 636
- the partridge or !kabbi 586
- the sho sho 952
- the son of the Wind 644
- the son of the Wind became 645
- the Wind became 645
- the Wind takes its form 646
- the |harriten or locust bird 723
- the |ka kau 587
- the |kain |kain 614
- the |kain |kain, the girls and |kaggen 614
- the |kitten-|kitten 673
- the ||gani, a kind of woodpigeon 979
- the ||kerri or locust bird and locusts 641
- the ||kerri, which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- the ≠kainyatara 898
- the ≠nerru 885, 886
- ttu ttutten 838
- what the owl says 636
- Wind became 644
- wise people can tell when a bird is a sorcerer 455
- |gwai's cap resembles its nest 838
- |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- |konnin 45
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- ||goo-ka-!kui threw stones at the Wind in its form 646
- ≠nerru and her husband 885

birds
- !gauru 120
- !kagen 120
- !kun names of 1004, 1077
- 'Boer' names of 120
- accounting for appearance of 120
- and death 930
- and the rain, wind and clouds 1077
- await the death of a thing 930
- called the |nu'she and the tt' e 1077
- calls of 1077
- Cape Dutch names of 120
- crows 120
- crows and secretary birds 609
- descriptions of 1004, 1077
- eaten by !kun men 956
- eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- eaten by the !kun 956
- found in !kun country 1077
- found in !nanni's and Tamme's country 1004
- found in Bushmanland 760, 839
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 839
- laugh at |xue 1075
- markings of 120
- more about |xue 1075
- names of 120, 143
- names of different crows 609
- names of eggs 143
- names of, that |xue becomes 1017
- nests made by 839
- owl 1075
- sheep fat tied around throats of 120
- sitopposite the dying thing 930
- such as crows wait for people to die 930
- the actions of the owl and the black crow warn of the approach of lions 431
- the diet of 1077
- the habits and behaviour of 1077
- the names of, in !kun country 956
- the owl and the black crow 431
- the plants and trees they eat 1004
- the sending of the Crows 120
- the tt' e eat !naxane 1077
- the ttu ttutten 839
- their actions and habits 1004
- their eggs 1004
- vultures 120
- why crows have white patches on neck or breast 120
- |xam names of crows 120
- |xue fears 1075
- |xuru 120

bite
- healing one with honey 9
- spider 9

Biting-Torn-Away
- advises her husband on the doings of the Lioness 835
- and her husband, the young man 835
- became a grown-up girl 835
- helps kill her adopted mother, the Lioness 835
- her grandmothers are !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau 835
- is clever 835
- is the Lioness's adopted daughter 835
- or Tssi-!kuara |hin, her story 835
- protects her husband from the Lioness 835
- the Lioness killed her mother 835
- was raised and nourished by the Lioness 835

black
- and |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- folk who are 293
- the Ticks are 293

Black Crow
- and Day's Heart's child 45
- and the thong that breaks 772
- and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane and the Rhebok 772
- calling Jackal 49
- Day's Heart and 45
- gets angry 49
- has no fire 45
- her house of sticks 772
- house of 45
- is a person of the Early Race 772
- she heats stones 772
- she saves the Rhebok |ke-dde 772

black crows
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272

black man
- 'Kafir police' 27
- 'Kafir' 27, 215, 871
- about various people known by |han≠kass'o 871
- and sneezing 215
- and the death of ||khwih and his companions 871
- and ||kabbo on the train 29
- and ||kabbo's capture and journey to Cape town 27
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- appearance of 29
- asks ||kabbo where he comes from 29
- called Meintjes 871
- is 'ugly' 29
- who killed ||khwih 871
- ||kabbo in the train 29
- ||kabbo's description of 29

black men
- 'Kafir' 166, 174
- 'Kafirs' 400, 762, 779, 806, 831
- and 'a man who wants to kill us' 400
- and harm done to Dia!kwain's throat 400
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat 400
- and |xam 400
- are like ashes 806
- blades used in their assegais 762
- capture ||kabbo 166, 174
- in rock painting copies no. 5 and 6 806
- in |han≠kass'o's country 762
- in |han≠kass'o's dream 831
- poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt 400
- running in fear 806
- the appearance of 806
- the man who stole Dia!kwain's mother's spoons 400
- the names of |xam killed by 779
- their nails are poisonous 400
- wanted to kill Dia!kwain's family 400
- weapons used by 762
- who have cuts 806
- who killed !kauru-ttin 779
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed 174

black people
- 'Kaal Kafirs' 860
- 'Kafirs' 810, 860
- and the 'wind's dogs' 810
- and the |xam 860
- carry things on their heads 810
- eat locusts 860
- have dogs 810
- how they make nets 860
- kaal, or have no trousers 860
- kaal, or naked 860
- living north of the Orange River 860
- living on the other side of the Orange River 860
- pictured in rock painting copy no. 9 810
- the food they eat 860
- their habits and customs 860
- use a net to collect locusts 860

blackness
- and the Bushman and !koranna 1137

Blaitje Snell
- his personal history 304
- the names of his relations 304

blank page
- in Bleek's Book XXIII 84

blank pages 51
- 51
- in Bleek's Book X 53
- in Bleek's Book XIV 61, 63
- in Bleek's Book XIX 78
- in Bleek's Book XV 67
- in Bleek's Book XVIII 75
- in Bleek's Book XXIV 95, 98, 100, 103
- in Bleek's Book XXV 112

blood
- 'lies down' 525
- 'separating lies down' 525
- -letting and the !kun 1071
- a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- about sorcerers 396
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and a beating felt in the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- and earthquakes 525
- and rain-making 393
- and sneezing 530
- and sneezing illness 397
- and sorcerers 525
- and the early morning 525
- and the Moon 468
- and the ||ken dance 530
- and war 467
- creates the mist 467
- from the nose of a sorcerer 493
- healers bleed from the nose when doing the ||ken dance 530
- healing with 397
- its scent 397
- lies above in the skin 525
- must be smelt so it will enter the 'gorge' 530
- of the waterbull 393
- of the |xam 467
- on the bushes 707
- poured into the springbok stomach 707
- rituals performed with for successful hunting after the death of a companion 716
- smoking, and anger 467
- sorcerers and internal bleeding 396
- spilt 707
- springbok's 707
- tapping and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- that 'sits' on the ground 707
- the hunter's burned in buchu 716
- the hunter's is sucked 716
- the Moon is red with that of the game 468
- the nosebleed of the sorcerer 530
- the sorcerer's nosebleed 493
- the sorcerer's snoring work 493
- the sorceress's nose-bleed 397
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the waterbull's blood is water 393
- when full or 'abundant' 525

blood clot
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706
- making a good wound 706
- making the springbok 'lie down' and die 706
- the 'wound's clot' 706

bloodletting
- a time of 'illness' 1071
- and markings, scarification or cutting 1071
- and men 1071
- and the !kun 1071
- and women 1071
- by the !kun 1071
- customs relating to 1071
- methods 1071
- the blood is caught in a horn cup 1071
- the objects or vessels used for 1071
- what the men eat 1071
- wives cut their husbands 1071

Blue Crane
- !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story 928
- !ko 85
- !yoa-ka-ttu, who cuts off her head and shoulders 888
- and !yoa-ka-ttu and the girls 888
- and Early Race 85
- and Heron's song 85
- and rain 275
- and the First Bushmen 85
- and the Frog's story 925
- and the girls 99, 99
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- and the two Lions !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 926
- and the two Lions, !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 925
- and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Rhebok and the Black Crow 772
- and two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross 185
- anger of 45
- appearance of 85
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- calls her brother ||kann-doro 925
- calls out 'I am coming!' to !yoa-ka-ttu 888
- carries Krieboom berries on its shoulder 85
- Day's Heart and 45
- does not die 888
- grows into a grown-up woman 925
- her body parts rejoin 888
- her bone is called !kamm 925
- her child 185
- her speech 275
- Heron 99
- house of 45
- how !gu tricks !haue ta ≠hou into tasting her flesh and eating her 926
- how she vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau and was killed and eaten by the Lions 925
- is a person of the Early Race 772, 888
- is an old woman and accompanies the girls 888
- is one of the young He-Dog's people 894
- is the Frog's 'mate' 928
- is the wife of the !khau lizard 772
- is |kaggen's elder sister 888
- is |kaggen's sister 99, 610, 925
- Krieboom on the shoulder of 49
- makes a hole for the Frog to vomit into 928
- name of 85
- protects and covers the girls with her body and wings 888
- resembles a splinter of stone 85
- returns to life in the water 925
- searches for the Frog's husband, !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- she smells her brother |kaggen's odour 925
- sings its story 85
- snatches and misses !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- song of 49, 85
- special speech of 99
- tastes the Quagga's liver 894
- the Black Crow calls the Jackal and 49
- the Blue Crane's speech 99
- walks singing 49
- was formerly a person 85
- way of speaking of 99
- who 'became bones' due to grief 925
- who was restored to life by means of one of |kaggen's bones 925
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- |kaggen dresses her and prepares her things 925
- |kaggen prevents her from going into the water 925
- |kaggen rubs her with his perspiration 925

boats
- of the Makoba 985

body
- a |xam name for a part of 109
- alteration of 193
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and actions after death 1049
- anointing or painting with ||hara and tto 711
- arrangement of the dead man's 1049
- cutting 193
- given by |han≠kass'o 630
- how that of the dead is dressed 1049
- names for parts of, and bones 630
- of the rain 591
- parts of 156
- piercing 193
- rainmaking, when the wind is in the north 591
- the parts cut and pierced 193
- the rain and the rain-bull in rock painting copy no. 8 809
- the rain's body–parts 809
- the rain's ribs 591
- words and sentences given by ≠kasin 47
- |xam names for 156
- |xam names of parts of 47

body parts
- of the rain 639, 640
- the hail is the rain's legs 640
- |kannu the rainmaker 639

body-piercing
- by the |xam 18
- ear-piercing 18

Boer
- all came out of one hole 1147
- and sneezing 215
- and |uma's capture 1112
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- Dutch 144, 146, 215, 1112
- Dutch man 539
- masters 1112
- names for sheep 144
- their relations with the !kun 1112
- who killed Jan Plat's brother Ruyter 539

Boers
- and Dia!kwain's mother 117
- and Dia!kwain's relations 117
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and the family of |han≠kass'o 577
- and the sending of the Crows 120
- and the |xam 19
- and Xaa-ttin's chippings 554
- and |han≠kass'o 577
- and |han≠kass'o's personal history 577
- as farmers 30
- as masters 30
- commando 120
- Dutch 19, 55, 117, 120, 577
- kill husbands 120
- murder the |xam 120
- names of 30, 55
- personal histories of |xam 583
- take |xam children 19
- the Dutch 554, 583
- the time before they came 554
- the |xam work for 19
- their cattle 19
- who speak |xam 55
- |xam relations with 583
- |xam take cattle of 19

bone
- and the making of clay pots 823
- and the resurrection of the Blue Crane 925
- breaking with a stone 823
- how the Blue Crane vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau and was killed and eaten by the Lions 925
- jewellery made of 806
- that springs from the Lion's mouth 925
- the !au or shaped rib-bone used for eating certain foods 584
- the Blue Crane's, called !kamm 925
- the cooking and eating of 823
- the working or shaping of the !au 584
- |han≠kass'o's description of in rock painting copy no. 5 806

bones
- !nanna-sse and the treatment of 707
- a description of the springboks' 710
- all are named 440
- and avoiding wounding the first finger of the right hand 713
- and avoiding wounds 713
- and hunting porcupine 729
- and success in hunting porcupine 729
- and the bone heap 729
- and the making of a needle from a springbok's foreleg 440
- and the man who shot game 707
- and the story of the new maiden who ate ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- animal 732
- are placed on an ostrich breastbone dish 733
- are put in the ostrich breastbone dish 707
- breaking the porcupine's 729
- children must not play with 729
- from different parts of the springbok's body 707
- further details about men who hunted Lions with 759
- given to the dogs 714
- heap of 707
- how the young He-Dog poisoned and killed his wife, the Quagga 894
- made into knobkerries 759
- marrow from 707
- men who hunted Lions with 756
- of springbok 707
- of the elephant are hard 759
- of the giraffe are hard 759
- of the ostrich are soft 759
- pierce and kill the Quagga 894
- placedopposite the hut's entrance 733
- put away in the sticks of the hut 713
- respect for 713, 733
- respecting 729
- sharpened and poisoned, are placed in the Quagga's bed 894
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- that can knock a Lion down and kill it 756
- that can knock a lion down and kill it 759
- the 'gnawing' or eating of 707
- the 'pouring' or 'emptying' of 733
- the consequences of playing with those of the springbok 709
- the eating habits of vultures 858
- the efficacy of hunting with different 756, 759
- the name of the heap of 707
- the name of the place where they are placed 707
- the placement of 707
- the placement of the 733
- the throwing away 714
- the treatment of 713, 729
- the treatment of the porcupine's 733
- the Vultures and their elder sister 858
- thigh 759
- throwing away 707
- Tsatsi's treatment of 713
- vultures leave them behind 858
- why ostrich-bones have no marrow 482
- |xam names for the springboks' 710
- |xam names of 732
- ||kabbo's family's treatment of 714
- ||kabbo's treatment of 714

boulder
- in |han≠kass'o's country 780
- that is white 780
- the name of 780

bow
- and stick of the dead man are placed in his grave 993
- consequences of playing instruments in thunderstorms 511
- Dia!kwain played his in a thunderstorm 511
- Ichneumon rebukes |kaggen 241
- making cuts on, when a baboon is killed 545
- making cuts on, when a hyena has been killed 546
- of the ghost or ||gaun-a 1113
- putting the baboon's 'teeth' on 545
- removing a hyena's curse or actions from 546
- removing the baboon's bad influence or curse from 545
- the treatment of 545, 546
- |kaggen's does not shoot 241
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- |xue's breaks 1062

bow man
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212

bow strings
- sinews used in making 308

bowels
- ≠nerru and her husband 885
- ≠nerru's are on her little back-kaross 885

bows
- made from Taaibosch 823
- the making of clay pots and 823
- the wood used to make 823

bowstring
- and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded 819
- striking and rainmaking 911
- struck by the !gixa or sorcerer called |kaunu 911
- |kaggen feels that of the bow that shot the eland 819

branches
- 'reversing' 859
- and sticks point to a new water-pool 859
- and sticks used to indicate direction 859
- are arranged as signs when people leave a place 859
- are put into the ground 'green top' down 859
- are stuck into the ground to point in the direction the people have gone 859
- the number used 859
- their distance apart 859

Breakwater Convict station
- and Jacob Nein 25

Breakwater Convict Station
- ' 568
- 'I come from the strong water' 568
- and four |xam from Aliwal North 1118
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and Oud Bakkis or 'one nose' 778
- and personal history of prisoners held there 104
- and Ssu-!kui-ten-tta or Snore-White-Lying who died there 428
- and the explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 428
- and ||kabbo's account of being captured and brought to 166
- and ≠girri-sse 568
- at Breakwater, 17 April 1880 1118
- Breakwater hospital 489
- details about |xam prisoners taken there in 1880 1118
- hard labour 27
- Hendrik Ronebout at Breakwater hospital 489
- Jan Plat at 486
- names of |xam at 30
- people who died while |han≠kass'o was in 777
- personal histories of |xam 583
- prison 30
- prisoner's numbers 485
- prisoners' numbers 486, 487
- the 'Strong Water 568
- words and sentences given by Mkuan there 1119
- words and sentences got at 139
- work done at the 27
- |a!kunta's relations at 139
- |han≠kass'o's time in 777
- |xam at the 27
- |xam held there 583
- |xam prisoners at 485, 486, 487
- |xam prisoners' numbers 30
- |xam who died there 583
- |xam who died while |han≠kass'o was in 778
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought there 27
- ≠enn at 487
- ≠gerri-sse at 485
- ≠gerri-sse at Breakwater and later at Mowbray 485

Breakwater hospital
- Hendrik Ronebout at 489
- prisoners' numbers 489

breast
- in the song of the young woman as she returned home 932
- of the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- the young woman sings for her nipple to grow back 932
- the young woman sings for hers to return to the way it was 932
- the young woman's nipple is caught in the cleft of a rock 929

broken string
- and !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and the open or empty country 458
- and the rain-bull 460
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- and Xaa-ttin's song about the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- has gone away 460
- has left Xaa-ttin's place 460
- or thong 458, 460
- the sound of 460
- the vibration of 460

brother
- and !kun marriage customs 1078
- next, marries dead brother's widow 1078

brother-in-law
- his revenge on |gwai 838
- the |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his 838
- waits for |gwai behind a screen of bushes 838
- what he says to |gwai 838
- |gwai killed his sister 838

brothers
- are angry at their little sister's leanness 840
- of the Wild Dog's wife 840
- –in–law of the !gwiten who was 'niggardly' to his wife 840

brush
- 'hyena's-' 754
- 'jackal's -' 754
- a grass resembles those belonging to the Early Race 754
- a grass that resembles 754
- and tools 57
- called the !nabbe 672
- different types of brushes 754
- feather- 754
- for wiping the face 754
- from !nabbe stem 57
- from animal hair 57
- from thorn-bush 57
- from |gipp hair 57
- handle of 57
- making of 57
- name of 57
- the 'Bushman pocket-handkerchief' 672
- the making of 672
- the names of brushes 754
- the preparation of tails for 672
- the tail-hair used in 672
- the types of hair used for 672
- the use of the Driedoorn stick in 672
- used by the |xam 57
- uses of 57
- with springbok neck sinew binding 57
- |ku 57

brushes
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- made of male ostrich feathers 815
- springbok fear them 815
- used to drive springbok 815

buchu
- 'boochoo' 716
- about sorcerers 396
- and a rain story 395
- and burning blood 716
- and making the springbok 'lie down' and die 716
- and new maidens 452
- and rainmaking 395
- and recovery of sorcerer 396
- and rituals for successful hunting 716
- and springbok hunting 716
- and the actions of rain 452
- and the girl's protection of her people from the rain 411
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the snoring out of 'harm's things' 782
- and the treatment of the rain 737
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- and thong 395
- and work with waterbull 395
- and ≠kagara's fight with !haunu 900
- appeasing the angry rain with 737
- as protection from !haunu and his thundering 900
- as protection from the rain 900
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- healing with 396
- its medicinal uses 396
- its smell, and sneezing 782
- rain changes people into frogs 737
- smoking arrows with 716
- the actions performed with by girls with 737
- the rain loves 737
- used by rain-sorcerer 395
- used in 'snoring' and 'sneezing' by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- used to 'work' the Rain by girls 741
- ≠kagara rubs it on 900

buck
- !kun name of 1039, 1043
- a !kun song about 969
- a male |ou's horn and prayers to the moon 1043
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and dress after death 1049
- and young moon's story 1043
- called |ou 1039, 1049, 1054, 1062
- gemsbok 806
- hartebeest 806
- in rock painting copy no. 7 806
- its horn worn by the dead man 1049
- kudu 806
- rhebok 806
- small, probably a steenbok 1049
- springbok 806
- the names given to the horns of 806
- the song of the mother of the little buck 969
- which do not have horns 806
- which have horns 806
- |ou's horn sounded by |xue 1054
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054

buffalo
- !kun name of 1063
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- |xue becomes 1023

bull
- and Rainmaking 125
- comes out of the water-pit 741
- is one of the Rain's things 741
- is the Rain's body 741
- or the xoro gwai 741
- Rain animal 125
- Rain-bull 125
- rain-bull 274
- ridden by the rainmaker 274
- the old man who makes rain 274
- the Rain's 741
- the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of 741
- the young woman rides the Rain in the form of one 741
- Water-bull 125

burial
- !kun customs at 993, 999
- !kun customs relating to 1114
- !kun methods of 984
- !kun practices 984
- a description of 879
- also avenging a death 1114
- and a thorn-tree called ||'i 1114
- and customs and ritual surrounding death 250
- and death on the hunting ground 250
- and old kaross 250
- and the digging of pits 997
- and the Great hole 219
- and the making of the grave 993, 999
- and the path of the First Bushmen 219
- and the rain which washes out a dead man's footsteps 879
- methods of 1114
- methods of the |xam 250
- of !nanni's little brother 999
- of Dia!kwain's first wife 429
- of people 879
- of strangers 1114
- of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu 722, 722
- of the little elephant 997
- of |kuken-|u |unu 722
- protecting the grave with bushes and stones 879
- springbok and gemsbok knew the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- the actions of men and women 1114
- the actions of the burial party 1114
- the actions of the relations of the deceased 1114
- the grave 1114
- the making of the grave 879
- the stick and bow are placed in the grave 993
- when the dead are buried or left lying on the ground 1114
- |kuken-|u |unu digs up the girls' bodies and eats them 722

bush
- !nabbe 57
- a white substance found on them 822
- and 'snake's saliva' 822
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- and the Moon's 'dung' 822
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- beating bushes and driving springbok 647
- brush-handle made from its wood 57
- screen used in springbok hunting 713
- screens 647
- settled on by locusts 657
- shelters used in springbok hunting 701
- the !kwana thorn tree or 702
- the name of 657, 681, 815
- the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- thorn-bush 57
- used for making shelters for houses from the rain 815
- used to build houses 681
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647

bushes
- when many grow at the waterpool it is called |uha 758

bushlice
- the Ticks 293
- |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293

Bushman
- and !koranna 1137
- and the blackness 1137
- why the Bushmen are without cattle 1137

Bushman doctor
- 'sneezes' out stick' 782
- 'snores' and 'sneezes' 782
- 'snores' out the lion and owl 782
- extracts things 782
- healer or sorcerer 782
- healing by 782
- known by |han≠kass'o 782
- makes a noise like an owl and a lion 782
- observed by |han≠kass'o 782
- or 'medicine man' 782
- the !gixa 782
- the doings of 782
- their 'snoring' does not lie down 782

Bushman groups
- names of different, given by Tamme 1092
- that !nanni, Tamme and |uma belong to 1092

Bushman letters
- 'speak truly' 287
- a beating of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- and knowing people are coming 287
- are in people's bodies 287
- at 'old wound's place' 287
- called |kumm 287
- presentiments of things that are going to happen 287

Bushman rice
- 'Bushman rice' star 320
- 'Bushman rice's star' 299
- 'maggot's houses' 768
- 'sifting' 659
- 'women's hunting' 662
- a description of 320
- about 299
- and !haken sieved by people of the Early Race in things called !yuiten 861
- and a mat 299
- and a prayer to stars Canopus and Sirius 322
- and Day's Heart 45
- and food eaten by the |xam 57
- and heated stones 299
- and rain 320
- and seasons 320
- and stars 320
- and sun and rain 299
- and the seasons 299
- and the use of the springbok-skin sack 885
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and wind 299
- and women's hunting 317
- and women's work 299
- and |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- ant larvae 299, 320, 659, 662, 768
- cocoons 768
- collected by ≠nerru and her husband 885
- digging for 57, 317, 659
- dug by men and women 662
- dusty 885
- fed to young Springbok by Anteater 373
- food eaten by the |xam 45
- implements used in its preparation 299
- is eaten as food 662
- is eaten by the |xam 654
- its 'fat' 299
- its holes 659
- its maggots or young 320
- methods of digging for 662
- names for 299
- on ≠nerru's little back-kaross 885
- resembles !haken 654
- sharing or dividing 659
- the !khau digs for 768
- the 'killing' of 299
- the digging out of 662
- the doings of 320
- the eating of 299
- the growth of 299
- the preparation of 299
- the use of the digging stick 659
- what the 'Bushman rice' does when the ||xo hai stars come out 320
- when it is dug out 662
- when its star comes 299
- women 'kill' it 317

Bushman Rice
- ant–larvae 673
- eaten by the |kitten-|kitten bird 673

Bushmanland
- and ||kabbo's intended return home 289
- names of a few places there given by ||kabbo 328
- the ground is red in 37

butterflies
- a 'doctoress' called |xu-an 'snored' |han≠kass'o 781
- and !giten 781
- are 'snored' out of a person by a healer 781
- cause illness 781
- children not to throw stones at 781

butterfly
- !kun name of 967
- or moth 967
- song of the ||noruko djo-djo 967
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054

button
- and Ttai-tchuen, with a lioness who had young cubs 450
- Ttai-tchuen dazzles a lioness with 450

buttons
- are handsome 248
- given to ||kabbo by Lloyd 248

call
- of animals imitated in the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- of ewe to its young and partridge imitated by Jan Plat's aunt Natta in the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- of the !koroken !koroken or telephonus bird 562

calling
- and making the springbok's heart descend, or 'fall' 849
- and making the wounded springbok become faint 849
- the custom called !nana-an or calling to wounded springbok 849
- to a wounded gemsbok 849
- to a wounded ostrich 849

Calvinia
- and the personal history of Jan Plat 572
- Jan Plat leaves there with Dia!kwain 572

camelthorn tree
- the Blue Crane and the girls sit under 99

Canopus
- a description of 322
- a prayer to 322
- an address to 322
- and Sirius 321
- and the sun 322
- his grandmother Sirius 322
- or |ßko a-ggu 321
- |xam names for 321

cap
- a wild beast's 838
- and Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- made of springbok's scalp with springbok ears 803
- of the |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his brother-in-law 838
- that resembles the ttu ttuten's nest 838
- the sorcerer's gemsbok cap 434
- the ||ken dress 434
- worn by sorcerers in the ||ken dance 434
- worn by the springbok–sorcerer, !guerriten-dde 803
- |gwai's 838

Cape
- 'Cape white men' 1112
- |uma's and Da's journey to the Cape 1112

Cape Dutch
- see Dutch or Boer 120

capture
- of Da by the Makoba and the death of his parents 1116
- of |uma by the Makoba 1112

carrying
- children 866
- methods used by women 866
- of young babies 866

carrying things
- and binding skins together by means of a thong 810
- black people do so on their heads 810
- by men and women 810
- in nets 810
- in rock painting copy no. 9 810
- methods of 810
- the |xam do so on their bodies 810

Cat
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and Lynx 305
- and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- and the plot to rescue the young Springbok 892
- appearance of 88
- buries his head in ground 240
- cannot run 211
- Day's Heart child's mother resembles 262
- deceives his pursuers 305
- does not run fast 305
- does not understand 305
- doubles back 305
- fights |kaggen 211
- goes along singing 240
- his fight with |kaggen 240
- is derided by Lynx 211
- is not cunning 305, 892
- is one of the Lynx's people 892
- its nature and habits 305
- Lynx-mother is 262
- puts head in ground 211
- sings a song about Lynx 211
- sings about Lynx 240
- song of 88
- the Cat's song 305
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- tricks and defeats |kaggen 240
- what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter 262

cat
- 'snoring' and 'sneezing' out of, by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- is harm's or illness's thing 782
- lion 782
- wild, is not eaten by the !kun 975

caterpillar
- !kun name of 1053
- a rain's thing 581
- called Kai 1053
- called |khuken-|u |unu 581
- called |kuken-|u |unu, who was formerly a person of the Early Race 722
- diet of 724
- gathered by !nanni's people 1053
- in |kuken-|u |unu's song 722
- is 'numerous' 724
- its hair pricks people 724
- its name is 'little fine hair' 724
- the appearance of 724
- the habits and actions of 724
- the people fear 724
- the place where it is found 724
- the tiger moth caterpillar, larva of Aloa 724
- the |kuken-|u |nu 724
- used by the !kun to make poison 1053
- |kuken-|u |unu is a tiger moth, larva of Aloa 722

caterpilllars
- and ||kum'm or rain-clouds 1066
- called ||k'e 1066

cats
- and |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667
- are beautiful 667
- their lairs or holes 667
- their skin is like the west wind 667
- their skin is worn by |ku-te-!gaua 667
- |ku-te !gaua enters fire and draws them out 667
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen sing for 667
- |ku-te-!gaua makes fires at their lair 667

cattle
- Boer 19
- in the morning 579
- pastoralism in |han≠kass'o's country 762
- taken by |xam to eat 19
- the eating habits of 579
- the nature and actions of 579
- why Korannas acquired guns 762
- why the Koranna posssess cattle and the Bushmen do not 1137

cavalry
- and a review of the parade 883, 883
- the people who were riding 883
- the people with white caps who were riding 883
- volunteer 883

cave
- and the man who sought refuge from the rain and found a lion there 449

celestial bodies
- !kun names of 951
- and the !kun 951
- description of 160
- descriptions of 951
- movements of 160
- nature of 160
- sun, Moon and stars 160

ceremony
- and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers 560
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and the new maiden who ate ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- and the passing of water 476
- for hunting with dogs 507
- for new maidens 482
- for removing the baboon's curse from the killing bow 545
- for removing the hyena's curse from the killing bow 546
- for the cutting up of eland 475
- for the killing of eland 476
- for the successful hunting of eland 475
- making cuts on the bow when a baboon has been killed 545
- making cuts on the bow when a hyena has been killed 546
- of sorcerers in which they strengthen themselves 560
- performed by new maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- |kaggen and the hunting of eland 476

chameleon
- a !kun song about 970
- a rain's thing 355
- an old woman asks it for rain 355
- and angry rain 356
- and rain 355
- brings rain 355
- is 'father's man' 356
- is a rain's thing or animal 356
- is a sky's thing 356
- its colour and rain 355
- its song 970
- or ≠na≠n'arro 970
- why it must not be killed 356

Charlton House
- Jan Plat at, in Mowbray 571

charm
- an explanation of the !hau-!hau 674
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and the scent of the hartebeest 416
- for hunting springbok 309
- for missing one's aim 674
- made by a mother 416
- made from one of |kaggen's things 416
- made of baboon's hair and Ssho |oa 553
- made of the hartebeest's foot 416
- that protects children from |kaggen 416
- the 'working' or making of 674
- the making of 416
- used in hunting 674
- which protects against illness 553

charms
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- for successful hunting 312
- the use of Ssho |oa 312

Chaser-of-food
- made the game wild 490
- made the Quagga run away 490

Cheetah
- and Anteater's laws 198
- marries elder sister 198

chest
- 'touching chests' 620
- and bewitchment 620
- and sleepiness 620
- and the story of !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- approaching people's 'chests' 620
- of strangers 618
- the approach of strangers makes people sleepy 618, 620
- the Elephants' chests make !gwa !nuntu sleepy 618

chiansbok
- hunting, preparation and eating of 163

child
- 'Hottentot boy carried off by Baboons' 7
- a custom observed with young children 534
- and a lion's story 382
- and illness 534
- and respecting the lion 827
- and stars 960
- and stars and flowers 517
- and Sun, Moon, and stars 32
- and the advice given by Snore-White-Lying 429
- and the African ground weevil 534
- and the owl, believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- angers and offends 45
- appearance of 45
- baboons raise a Koranna 7
- beauty of 45
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- colour of 45
- Dawn's Heart's 45
- Day's Heart Star child 182
- Day's Heart star child 256
- Day's Heart's 45, 45, 49
- flesh of is red 45
- healing with a weevil 534
- how Dia!kwain cared for his after the death of his first wife 429
- hyena's 46
- incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- is startled awake 534
- is taken by baboons 7
- its cold is cured using a reed necklace 793
- Koranna 7
- Kwa-kkwara marries a girl 405
- Kwa-kkwara pretends to be a child and hides his grown-up things 405
- laughs 45
- lions take revenge on it when it is grown 827
- mocks those who are not handsome 45
- Moon's 37
- must not blow on the fly 827
- must not disrespect the lion's fly 827
- of Star 183
- of the Daybreak Star 182
- or pet 624
- star's 32
- sun's 960
- tells |xue 'divide my hands' 1017
- the Day's Heart star child 152
- the Daybreak Star Heart child 182
- the eland is |kaggen's 624
- the Moon pierced by the Sun 11
- the Moon's 11
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- the song of the !khau's 691
- the Star was once 517
- the star's 14
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405
- who makes light of the lion 827
- who resembles her Day's Heart's father 45
- who saves its parents from a lion 382
- with convulsions in its sleep 534
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen's son is !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- |xue is a spirit and kills his 1026
- |xue's 1017, 1026

children
- !kun 1072
- !kun marriage customs 1078
- 'Flat Bushmen's' 272
- 'Grass Bushmen' resemble, are 'Children of shortness' 805
- 'young Mantis' 682
- a game played with the Phyllomorpha paradoxa or withered-leaf insect distracts them from crying 652
- and !kun customs at death 984
- and a note on the First Bushmen 297
- and avoidance behaviour relating to lions 447
- and avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- and calling of lion's name 266
- and Ddi xerreten and the Lioness 837
- and hunting springbok 613
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and kaunu who drives locusts with them 915
- and lions 424
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- and playing with or disrespecting the lion's name 423
- and porcupine hunting 729
- and swallows 521
- and the !kwai !kwai and |kaggen 765
- and the actions performed by mothers during earthquakes 525
- and the drought which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve 751
- and the hartebeest charm 416
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the lion's revenge on the hunting-ground 423
- and the Porcupine 682
- and the story of !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- and the use of the term ddabba-i 853
- and understanding 272, 853
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |kaggen and the !kwai !kwai 615
- and |kaggen turned into a hartebeest 101
- and ||kabbo's intended return home 289
- are boys 298
- are cautioned about respecting the lion's name 423
- are cured using the !nu !nurussi or Brachycerus, African ground weevil 792
- are educated by their elders 853
- are instructed by their mothers 298
- are put in the !kwai !kwai's net 615
- are taken by the !kwai !kwai 615
- are taught not to laugh at the Moon 874
- are taught the hunting-ground's doings 424
- are taught to respect the Moon 874
- are told not to cry for food 750
- become cowards from eating a jackal's heart 744
- behaviour causes hunting accident 250
- break the porcupine's leg-bones 729
- burn the !kwai !kwai 615
- burnt by ||khwai-hemm's tongue 788
- call the lion Hair 423
- call the Moon's name 303
- cared for by the old people 1072
- create the Sun 298
- cry on account of their 'foolishness' 750
- cut and carry hartebeest's flesh 101
- deceived the Sun 298
- do not eat a jackal's heart 744
- do not say the lion's name at night 829
- drive locusts 915
- drive the springbok 815
- eat little birds and mice 903
- eat lizards called ||horu 931
- educating 750
- education of 421
- fear rain's things 412
- fear the porcupine 412
- food eaten by 903
- frightened 101
- girl- 101
- give the Sun directions 298
- how their mothers protect them from |kaggen 416
- how they anger the Moon 303
- how they are carried when very little 866
- how they are raised 1078
- how women carry them 866
- hunt food 101
- hunt game during drought 751
- in Kareebergen Stuurmansfontein dialect 97
- instructed by parents how to get food 413
- kill and skin the Fieldmice 752
- kill the star 1083
- killed by the !kwai !kwai 765
- liberated by Ddi xerreten 837
- live again 765
- look out for springbok 815
- methods of carrying 866
- must avoid eating the porcupine's neck 412
- must collect bushes to make shelters 815
- must not eat certain parts of the ostrich 504
- must not eat the backbone of things 424
- must not play at gargling 501
- must not play with the porcupine's bones 729
- must not say the names of the dead at night 854
- must not throw stones at swallows 521
- must respect magic things or the rain's things 521
- must respect the lion's name 829
- of First Bushmen 300
- of Moon 216
- of the !kun and death 984
- of the !kun eat the |nu'she bird 1085
- of the Early Race put their comrade into a Fieldmouse skin and he becomes a lion 752
- of the Elephants 618
- of the First Bushmen 206, 298, 301
- of the First Bushmen threw the Sun into the sky 297
- of the Moon 179
- of the Rain resemble a calf and grow and get horns 748
- of the Rain, killed by the girl of the Early Race 748
- of the widow 1078
- of the widow provide for her 1078
- of the |xam 19
- offend the Moon 303
- people do not put away meat for them 750
- play with the star 1083
- pull the star out of the ground 1083
- raised by Boers 19
- raising of dead man's 250
- resemble their father 682
- return to their own people 837
- run after springbok 701
- run down steenbok 751
- see and shoot well 613
- sent by grandmother 298
- sing loudly 615
- sit like stones 788
- skin hartebeest 101
- skin |kaggen 101
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- stars 1083
- steal Sun's armpit 206
- stolen by Boers 19
- stories told to 750
- Sun and Moon story 203
- taught about flies and lions 447
- taught about lions 447
- taught not to play at water–holes 447
- taught not to play with a sorcerer's name 436
- taught not to throw stones at locusts 915
- taught that sneezing to be avoided when game is shot 515
- taught the kkoroken ritual or preventing the sneeze 515
- taught to respect sorcerers 436
- taught to use another name for the lion 423
- that are ill 792
- the !nu !nurussi is tied to their throat 792
- the 'killing of' 984
- the consequences of their eating the springbok's tongue-tip 563
- the consequences of their not avoiding certain foods 424
- the consequences of their playing with springbok bones and skin 709
- the cutting of parts of their body 193
- the death of 984
- the lion waits for them to grow up before killing them 829
- the Lioness loves them 837
- the maiden's story; the frog's story 375
- the Moon and Sun 216
- the names of Mkuan's 1120
- the Porcupine's preparation of 788
- the protection of their hearts during earthquake 525
- the role of children in hunting game 751
- the Sun pierces the full Moon with his knife 179
- the Water's children 748
- their actions 682
- their education 424
- their foolish actions 853
- their hearts startled by earthquake 525
- their laughter angers the Moon and causes an eclipse 301
- their names 682
- things that can kill 416
- throw away the star 1083
- throw sleeping Sun into sky 206
- throwing up the Sun 97
- understand 298
- Water's, eaten by the new maiden 375
- what happens when they slight the lion by saying its name 829
- what old people teach them about open ostrich eggshells and snakes 842
- what they are taught about life after death 854
- what they call the lion at night 829
- what they can eat 424
- what they do when they see a lion's spoor 421
- what they must avoid 424
- what they say when they see beautiful springbok 613
- when alarmed during an earthquake 525
- when dead they do not eat 984
- who create the Sun 300
- who cry are killed and eaten by !nu !numma-!kuiten 890
- who disrespect the lion and what happens when they are adults 423
- who live nicely with and work for the Lioness 837
- who misbehave, threatened with !nu !numma-!kuiten 890
- who throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky 300
- whose people live in the ravines 837
- widow married by her dead husband's next brother 1078
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- wounded game jumps up if they sneeze 515
- young |kaggen and young |kwammana 788
- |kaggen and |kwammana are rescued from ||khwai-hemm by their 788
- |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788
- |kaggen looks after them 615
- |kaggen resurrects 765
- |kaggen's 206, 682
- ||kabbo's 289

chippings
- drawings 554
- explanation of 771
- made before the time of the 'Boers' 554
- made by Dia!kwain's father 554
- number 4 771
- of gemsbok, quagga and ostriches 554
- rock art 771
- the place where they were made, called !kann 554
- Xaa-ttin's 554
- |han≠kass'o's explanation of 771

clay
- and the making of clay pots 823
- methods used in making 823
- moulded and smoothed with !kau bone 823
- newly dried 823
- pounding the earth for making 823
- raw- 823
- the drying of 823
- the moulding of 823
- used in the making of a cooking pot 870
- which earth is used for making 823

clay pots
- 'working' 823
- are dried in the sun 823
- are gum-coated 823
- are not struck with a stone when new 823
- are rubbed and sealed with fat 823
- are smoothed with a !kau bone 823
- blood is boiled inside 823
- how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make 823
- the clay used for 823
- the gum used for sealing them 823
- the making of 823, 823
- the treatment of new 823
- women teach each other to make 823

cleansing
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- of the new maiden with rain-liquid 452
- ritual or ceremony for new maidens 452

cleverness
- to make a living 1154

clicks
- accounting for 899
- and how women show admiration for the horse 908
- and the speech of animals 899
- and ways of speaking the |xam language 326
- made by women 908
- notes on 957
- of animals and the Moon 326
- why the ostrich does not 899

cloth
- the son of the Wind 644
- the Wind's skin is 644

cloud
- shadow cast by ||khwai-hemm resembles 788
- |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788

clouds
- !kun name of 1066
- 'a jackal appears to be coming' 815
- 'leg comes out' 815
- 'leg' of 815
- 'newly gone along' 815
- 'shut in the place' 911
- 'were lightening' 900
- a baboon's are like a person's when it dies 545
- a dead person's 462
- an incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- and 'Aquilae's water' 690
- and death 462
- and killing baboons 545
- and lightning 901
- and rainmaking 911
- and sitting in the shade 463
- and the !gixa or sorcerer called |kaunu 911
- and the coming of the rain 1066
- and the great wind 1066
- and the rain 900, 1066
- and the rain and the rain-bull pictured in 809
- and the west wind 760
- and what happens when people die 462
- and what |han≠kass'o's grandmothers used to tell him about ≠kagara and !haunu 901
- and wind 760
- and ≠kagara's fight with !haunu 900
- and ≠kagara's fight with !haunu in the east 901
- are called 'jackal' when black 814
- are called 'rain's hair' when red 814
- are dead people 462
- are the hair of the dead 462
- become black and are called 'jackal' 815
- beliefs relating to 760
- black 760, 1066
- called 'hair' 815
- called 'jackal' 815
- called the 'man's liver' 760
- came out when |kaunu struck the bowstring 911
- darken 815
- death and 'making cloud' 545
- different kinds of 690
- different types of 275
- horns burnt to disperse or divide 816
- in rock painting copy no. 8 809
- in the east 900, 901
- made by the baboon when dead 545
- mode of address to, by old men 815
- rain- 760
- rain-clouds 275, 690, 816, 900, 911
- rain-liquid comes out of 815
- rain–clouds 814
- resemble the stars 690
- resembled a mountain 900
- shut out the sun 911
- that are thick 901
- that herald and bring rain 814
- that lie in the south 814
- that resemble mountains 901
- that thunder, and black lightning which kills people 902
- the actions of people make them 463
- the appearance of 690
- the colours of 814
- the dead make 462
- the name of one 760
- the names of 690
- the names of black rain-clouds 275
- what people call the different 814
- what people say to 815
- when they were thick 900
- where they come from 690
- where they lie 814
- white 815
- ||kum'm or rain-clouds 1066

cobra
- is the rain's animal 740

colour
- accounting for the colours of the rainbow 632
- and rain-making 393
- of the waterbull 393
- rainbow and|kaggen and !kwammana 632
- the reasons for the colours of the gemsbok, the hartebeest, the eland, the quagga, and the springbok 392

colours
- and patterns 633
- given by |han≠kass'o 836
- names for, given by |han≠kass'o 633
- the |xam names of different 836

commando
- 'Boer' 467, 670
- 'Boer', that killed !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and the death of |han≠kass'o's uncle kkuirri-ttu 670
- and the mist 467
- attacks the |xam 467
- destroyed by the ||ua or Fox 761
- escape of |kannan from a Koranna 847
- Koranna 761, 844, 847
- of Korannas and the Early Race 844
- or war party 761
- the mist foretells the approach of one 467
- the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna– 844
- the |xam fight with 467
- war party 847

constellations
- and |xam names of stars 128
- names of stars 108
- |xam names of 108, 128

contents page
- for Book XXIV 91

convicts
- at Breakwater, 17 April 1880 1118
- names of four |xam from Aliwal North 1118
- |xam, at Breakwater Convict Station 1118

cooking
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and the Anteater's laws 200
- and what people eat and wear 200
- fires 222
- implements 222
- methods 163
- methods of 222, 272
- of food 200
- of hyenas by the |xam 21
- of ostrich 272
- of ostrich flesh 15
- of the ostrich carried away by the man 15
- on fires 272
- ostrich eggs 222
- pot 15, 222, 272
- soup 163
- soup is made of hyena flesh 21
- utensils 163, 200

cooking utensil
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and women 57
- eating and 57
- gemsbok's rib as 57
- ostrich bone as 57
- pot as 57

country
- !in nanni's maternal grandfather's, dead go into the Moon 999
- !nanni's and Tamme's 974, 992
- a bird found there 1084
- about !nauxa's 1122
- after death the people leave for another 993
- and !kun customs at death 1048
- and !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and the Maiya 1086
- Da's 1115
- Damaraland 974
- dreams in !nanni's and Tamme's kill a person 1002
- food found in |han≠kass'o's 597
- further changes of |xue 1031
- grasshopper of !nanni's and Tamme's 1030
- hares do not live in only one 1057
- intoxicated women leave for another, and are killed there 1086
- Moon's great and little 1057
- more about |xue 1075
- names of mountains in !nauxa's 1122
- of the !kun 974
- of the !kun boys 992
- of the Bushmen 1092
- of the dead Bushmen 1057
- of the Makoba 1084
- or 'ground' 986
- people in Tamme's respect the mantis and do not eat it 1060
- people leave for another place when someone dies 999
- peoples found in Tamme's and !nanni's 1018
- Tamme's mother's 986, 1018
- the dead man's 1048
- the divining pieces used by !kun of !nanni's 1050
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the Makoba in Tamme's and the rain 1103
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the Ovaherero's 986
- the Ovambo's 986
- the peoples of Da's 1115
- the son of the dead man leaves for his father's 1048
- the widow leaves for her mother's 1048
- trance dance in !nanni and Tamme's country 1002
- what the dead man's son says to the widow 1048
- widow left alone in hers 1078
- widow's daughter taken to another 1078
- women punished and sent to their parent's 1082
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054
- |xue goes into another 1031
- |xue returns to his own 1021
- |xue throws bags with food and weapons into the Bushmen's 1092
- |xue's 1036, 1054
- |xue's father's 1036, 1039, 1057
- |xue's mother's 1036, 1075
- |xue's mother's and father's 1054
- |xue, his father and changes 1036
- ≠gerri-sse at Breakwater and later at Mowbray 485
- ≠gerri-sse's mother came from ||kabbo's 485

courage
- a |xam saying about 295
- and fear or cowardice 295
- men who run away fear greatly 295

cow
- and Rainmaking 125
- rain-cow 274
- ridden by the rainmaker 274
- the old man who makes rain 274
- Water cow 125

coward
- and Day's Heart 45
- Jackal is a |kerre 45
- |xam word for 45

cowardice
- a |xam saying about 295
- and courage 295
- men who run away fear greatly 295

creation
- 'U'we made these things' 1057
- a !kun story of 1107
- a legend of the !kun concerning 1092
- and a note on the First Bushmen 297
- and the bag of the dead Bushmen 1057
- and the Day's Heart star 256
- and the Early Race of Bushmen 1092
- and the Hare 1092
- and the new maiden 658
- and |kaggen's creation of the Moon 624
- and |xue 1092
- by the Hare 1057
- by |kaggen of the Moon 50
- by |xue 1057
- by |xue or U'we 1057
- feather which becomes the Moon 624
- gives skin to jackals 1107
- Moon and Hare story 1106
- Moon and Sun and Hare 1107
- Moon and Sun and Hares 1107
- of death 66, 114, 363, 364, 365, 1057, 1092, 1106, 1107, 1107
- of death and all things 1057
- of food and food animals 1057
- of four kinds of Bushmen 1092
- of illness 1057, 1057
- of locusts by |kannu the rainmaker 638
- of Moon 205
- of stars 319
- of Sun, Moon and stars 256
- of the Bushmen 1092
- of the Milky Way 658
- of the Moon 37, 50, 50, 624
- of the Moon from an ostrich feather 50
- of the Moon from |kaggen's shoe 66
- of the Star-people 319
- of the stars 658
- of the stars and the Milky Way 658
- of the Sun 297, 298, 300
- of ≠nabbe ta !nu or Corona Australis 319
- rips off the Hare's jackal-skin 1107
- story of the !kun 1057
- story told by Tamme 1057
- the children of the First Bushmen throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky 298
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057, 1057
- the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain 363
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- the Moon and the little Hare and 66
- the new maiden who threw !huin into the sky 658
- the old woman who sends the children to throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky 300
- |kaggen and the Moon 50
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen makes an eland 624

crime
- and the !kun 1082
- and the killing of offenders 1082
- the methods of punishment for favoured by the !kun 1082
- theft 1082

crocodiles
- 'alligators' 1116
- and Da's capture and the death of his parents 1116

crossing the spoor
- doubling when pursued 86

Crow
- a description of 609
- accounting for the appearance of a crow 609
- and Lion star 178
- and secretary birds 609
- and two Lions 178, 185
- called the !kagen 609
- Corvus scapulatus 609
- crows know where and show people where springboks lie 609
- finds |kwammana 609
- his house 178
- its breast 609
- messengers 609
- that eats fat 609
- that have a piece of 'white fat' at their neck 609
- that seeks |kwammana 609
- the names of 609
- the nature and habits of crows 609
- why its neck-feathers are white 609
- with fat around its neck 609

crow
- and the Day's Heart star's discourse 266
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- calls the lion 431
- doings of 266
- its appearance 431
- its nature and habits 431
- must be feared 431
- the owl and the black crow 431
- wants the lion to catch people in their sleep 431
- warns of the approach of the lion 431

Crow's story
- and what happened when the !kagen found the missing men 380
- or !kagen ka Kkomm and |hunn ta kkomm's story 380

crows
- !gauru 120
- !kagen 120
- !kagen ka Kkomm 380
- 'Boer' names of 120
- accounting for appearance of 120
- and death 929, 930
- and hunting 349
- and the missing men 380
- and the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- and the young woman who says 'the spoor of the crows abounds by me' 929
- and what happened when the !kagen found the missing men 380
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- are sent to search for husbands 380
- await the death of a thing 930
- Cape Dutch names of 120
- different types of 120, 380
- fat is tied on their throats 380
- fat tied on throats of 120
- markings of 120
- sent out to look for husbands 120
- the Crow who breaks stones 380
- the Crow who eats fat 380
- the Crow who travels far 380
- the Crow's story 380
- the names of 380
- the sending of the Crows 120
- wait for people to die 929
- watching for 349
- why crows have white patches on neck or breast 120
- |hunn ta kkomm 380
- |xam names of 120
- |xuru 120

cup
- horn, used for bloodletting 1071

curing
- a spider bite with honey 9
- and sneezing 288
- and snoring 288
- and the Maiya plant 1086
- and the trance dance 1002
- and the treatment of intoxication from eating too much of the Maiya 1086
- illness and the trance dance 1001
- illness caused by dreams 1001, 1002
- medicines used by the |xam 9
- see healing 101

curse
- 'let a lion take |xue!' 1017
- 'Let the lion take this person' 1017
- 'May a lion take thee!' 1025
- 'May the lion eat this person!' 1017
- 'May the lion take |xue!' 1021
- accounting for the habits and appearance of hares 464
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and the Anteater's laws 763
- and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the ætiology of animal behaviour and appearance 892
- beasts of prey were once people 763
- by the Dassie of |kaggen 610
- by the Moon of the Hare 464
- making cuts on the bow when a baboon is killed 545
- making cuts on the bow when a hyena is killed 546
- of Dassie by the husbands 380
- of the Anteater 892
- of the Baboon of the Early Race 555
- of the baboon; its bad influence or actions 545
- of the Baboons who ate human beings 555
- of the Dassie by |kaggen 610
- of the girls who become ill and die 722
- of the husbands by Dassie 380
- of the hyena; its bad influence or actions 546
- of the Lynx 892
- of the Lynx and the Anteater 763
- of the Vultures who become birds 858
- of the young woman by her mother 929
- of the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- of |xue by his wife 1017, 1021
- rain smells a cursed person 452
- removing the baboon's from the killing bow 545
- removing the hyena's from the killing bow 546
- the Crow's story 380
- the elder sister's husband curses the Vultures 858
- the maiden's cursing or scolding speech 452
- used by the !kun 1025
- when people want their hearts to stop aching 1017
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- |kuken-|u |unu's 722
- |xue and his father-in-law 1021
- |xue as ostrich and other things 1025

curses
- and the bad consequences of beating the kaross on the ground 497
- cursing people or wishing death upon them 497
- of the Grass Bushmen when angry 497

cursing
- 'A fight shall come upon thee' 910
- 'Departed One!' 910
- 'Graveman!' 910
- 'Oh, mayest thou be hatched!' 910
- a maiden's 509
- and wishing another dead 910
- angry rain and angry maidens 509
- Be killed!' 910
- by people 910
- modes of 910
- resembles things which hatch 910
- that another may die 910
- the girl who snaps her fingers at her parents and the rain 509
- what is said to a person whose actions are disagreeable 547
- what people say to each other when 910

cutting
- 'in the old mark' 1094
- and digging for Ssho |oa 316
- and marking a bow used to kill a baboon 545
- and marking a bow used to kill a hyena 546
- and removing the baboon's curse from the killing bow 545
- and removing the hyena's curse from the killing bow 546
- and rituals for shooting well 311
- and scarification 311, 716
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and the ignorant man who digs up Ssho |oa 316
- and what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- between the eyebrows 1094
- black men who have cuts in rock painting copies no. 5 and 6 806
- by Korannas 311
- by |xam 311
- done by women 716
- implements used for 855
- in the cleansing ritual 1094
- Korannas and the |xam cut themselves 311
- Korannas cut the back of their right wrists when they fight with their fists 311
- Korannas cut to fight others 311
- meat 869
- methods 855
- methods of 869
- of arm 193
- of body 311
- of cooked meat 855
- of finger 193
- of hand 193
- of male and female children 193
- performed by the father-in-law 1094
- power of reed and quartz 796
- rituals that ensure successful hunting 309
- skinning and 855
- the hunter 716
- the marks of a Ssho |oa's man 316
- the rituals performed for successful hunting after the death of a companion 716
- up of meat after hunting 349
- use of quartz for 869
- use of stones for 869
- using reeds 855
- with a sharpened arrow-head 716
- with a stone knife 869
- |xam cut to shoot well 311
- ||kabbo didn't have the neccessary marks 316

Da
- and |uma 1112
- and |uma's capture 1112
- his capture 1115
- his capture by the Makoba 1116
- his country 1115, 1116
- his journey with |uma to the Cape 1112
- his master 1112
- his parents and relations 1115
- his personal history 1037, 1112, 1115, 1116
- in Mowbray in May 1880 1115
- the deaths of his family members 1116
- the murder of his parents 1116
- the names of his parents 1037

dacca
- and intoxication 1007
- called pankwe by the Makoba and the Damaras 1007
- called xana by the !kun 1007
- the Makoba give it to the !kun 1007

Damara
- in Da's country 1115
- vocabulary 951
- what they call things 951
- |xue speaks Berg Damara's language 1036
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

Damaraland
- its inhabitants 1112
- peoples of 1112
- white men in 1112

Damaras
- and |uma's capture 1112
- Berg 1029, 1112
- call dacca 'pankwe' 1007
- the Hai-||umm speak the same language as 1029
- their relations with the !kun 1112

dance
- !nanni's brother beat the drum 1001
- a description of 598
- a description of the |goo or ≠gebbi-gu 804
- a game called ssauken resembles one 856
- actions after 598
- actions performed by men and women in 1001
- an account of 598, 599
- and !nanni's father and brother 1001
- and drumming 598
- and falling stars 491
- and gender 434, 598
- and healing the sick 1001
- and laughing at sorcerers 434
- and music 598
- and rainmaking 578
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and singing 1001
- and Stow's illustrations number 8 and 9 434
- and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance 529
- and the !goin-!goin 598
- and the actions of dancers 598
- and the actions performed by men and women 599
- and the beating of the drum 1001
- and the imitation of gemsbok and dogs 434
- and the making and preparation of springbok's ears for rattles 600
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the trance state 1001
- and the tying on of the dancing rattles 601
- and the use of springbok's ear dancing rattles 601
- baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- called !ku 862
- called the ||ken 529
- called ||ken 530
- fatigue after 598
- gestures performed during 1001
- held by the Quaggas in which they trample and kill the young He-Dog 894
- in which men imitate the call of the ostrich 804
- magic, of sorcerers 491
- men dance 598
- men nod and women clap in 862
- movements performed when singing the song of the Mother Rhinoceros 798
- Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- of rainmakers 578
- of sorcerers 434, 529
- of the sorcerers or healers 530
- of the ≠nuturu 653
- or game 862
- people make gestures and 'doctor' 1001
- performed by the 'Grass Bushmen' 804
- roles played by the dancers 434
- sounds made during the performance of 599
- the '||ken's doings' 434
- the dress worn for 599
- the dress worn in 600
- the making of a drum for 599
- the making of dancing rattles for 599
- the performance of 598
- the sorcerer's ||ken dance 530
- the sounds made during 600
- the teaching of 434
- the use of dancing rattles in 599, 600
- the women make the rattles for 600
- the |goo or ≠gebbi-gu 804
- the ||ken dance 434
- the ||ken dress 434
- trance 1001, 1002
- what is worn 434
- what men and women wear for 599
- where the She-Hyena is exposed 862
- women drum and clap 598
- young gemsbok's horns 434

dancing
- and baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- and singing of ≠gebbi-ggu 541

dancing rattles
- are made from springbok's ears and tied to the feet of the men who dance 599
- are worn by men in a dance 599
- how they are tied on to the feet of the men who dance 601
- made of springbok ears and filled with ||kerri berries 601
- make men dance well 599
- the making of 599, 600
- the preparation of the springbok's ears 600
- the sound of 599
- worn by men in a dance 600
- ||kerri berries put in dried springbok's ears 600

Daoud Moos
- his personal history 304
- the names of his relations 304

darkness
- 'is not a little black' 843
- 'sat' 990
- 'shuts people from home' 873
- and an eclipse of the sun 873
- and an explanation of the eclipse of the Moon 301
- and lions 302
- and looking at the Moon as it comes out 302
- and the angry Moon 302
- and the Bushman and !koranna 1137
- and the Hyena's revenge 843
- and the Moon who becomes angry at the children's laughter 301
- and when the sun goes in 873
- and why the |xam fear the sun 873
- night 990
- resembles fear 301
- the fear of 990
- the Moon creates and punishes people with 301
- the people fear it 302
- the |go |go'ken or Tortoise's head in the bag which resembles 843
- traps people on the hunting-ground 873
- what |xam say about 843
- when the Ovaherero's oxen disappeared and the lion killed their cattle 990

Dassie
- 'mother' 610
- 'young' 610
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and creation of stars 319
- and Crow's story 380
- and new maiden 319
- and ≠nabbe ta !nu 319
- causes stones to cover men 380
- her people and their things become stars 319
- her urine or 'water' 610
- her urine, water is bitter 380
- hyrax 38
- is cursed by husbands 380
- is cursed by |kaggen 610
- is |kaggen's wife 88
- its house 610
- lives with the Bees 610
- makes rocks fall on |kaggen and |kwammana 610
- names for 208
- or Rock Rabbit 319
- other names for 88
- the husbands curse 380
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- |huntu !kat !katten 38, 88, 208
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit its house 610
- |kaggen's wife 208
- |kaggen's wife is 38

dawn
- actions at 500
- and destroying the sneeze or kkoroken 516
- and standing 500
- and the !ho 500
- and the !ho and Ko-boken 499
- and the !ho: a whirlwind 499, 500
- and the whirlwind 500
- customs relating to 500
- its doings 499, 500
- prohibitions relating to 499, 500
- sneezing at 516
- sneezing at and hunting 516
- sneezing in the early morning considered unfortunate 516
- standing at 500
- the consequences of standing at 499
- the early morning's doings 500
- warnings about 499, 500

Dawn's stars
- !gaunu named them 505
- and the nature and habits of porcupines 505
- aquilae 505
- ||xwhai 505

day
- -time 1047
- times of, when the |u' ||ke' or Tshaka can be handled 1096
- times of, when the ≠nabbi plant is eaten 1096
- when Karu spoke of |xue 1047

Day's Heart
- !gau e |i 262
- !kaun !khe 262
- actions of 45
- and doings of |xam 256
- and his daughter 256
- and Lynx 256
- and Moon 262
- and nature and habits of animals 256
- and Sun 256, 262
- and the conversations of animals 45
- and the doings of jackals 263
- and the Jackal's speech 263, 266
- appearance of 45
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- buries his child 256
- child 49
- child of 45
- daughter of 45
- Dawn's Heart 45
- Dawn's-Heart 256, 256
- discourse of 263, 266
- discourses 256
- doings of 45
- doings of animals and 45
- fights Hyena and Jackal 45
- flesh is red 256
- flesh of is red 45
- heart is a child 256
- heaven's thing 256
- his child 262
- his daughter 262
- his discourse 262
- his doings 262
- his heart 262
- his name 262
- his wife 262
- is a star 256, 262
- is cold 262
- is darkness's thing 262
- is handsome 45
- Jupiter 45, 256, 256, 262
- marries She-Lynx 45
- marries the Hyena 45
- movements of 256
- names his child 256
- nature of 256
- relations of 45
- resembles daughter 45
- resembles fire 262
- sister-in-law of 45
- speech to his daughter 256
- spits out his child 256
- star 45, 256, 262, 263, 266
- story of 45
- swallows his child 256
- the appearance of 262
- the conversation of the Hyenas 45
- the people's names for 256
- weapons of 45
- what he says to his daughter 262
- wife of 45
- wife, nuin ttarra 256

Day's Heart child
- and her father's speech or discourses 256
- and Moon 262
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara, her mother 862
- Dawn’s–Heart 256
- grows 262
- her doings 256
- her father buries her 256
- her father is Day's Heart Star 256
- her father is Day's Heart star 262
- her father spits her out 256
- her father swallows her 256
- her father's discourse or speech 262
- her mother 256, 262
- her name is heart 256
- how her mother became a Lynx 862
- is a star 256, 262
- is cold 262
- is darkness's thing 262
- resembles her father 256
- the appearance of 262
- the doings of 262
- was buried under the !huin plant by her father, the Day's Heart star 862

Day's Heart child's mother
- and Jackal and Hyena's revenge 256
- becomes a Lynx 256
- becomes an animal 256
- eats flesh, eats raw 256
- grew lion hair 262
- her daughter is Day's Heart child 262
- her face is white 256
- her kaross 256
- her name is Lynx 256
- her name is nuin ttarra 256
- her odour 256
- her ornaments or jewellery 256
- her younger sister 256
- is a beast of prey 256, 262
- is a Lynx 256, 262
- is a person 262
- is an animal 262
- is different 256, 262
- is handsome 256
- is poisoned, bewitched by Jackal and Hyena 256
- Lynx-mother 256
- married Day's Heart star 256
- must hunt or running' catch things 256
- must marry her own kind 256
- must not dig for 'Bushman rice' 256
- resembles a Cat 262

Day's Heart star
- !ko'-g !nuin-tara and 862
- accounting for his appearance 862
- and his wife !ko'-g !nuin-tara, the She-Lynx 862
- and his younger sister-in-law, |xe-dde-yo'e 862
- and the poisoning of his wife 862
- anoints his wife with the contents of a goat's stomach 862
- drives goats to !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- hides and buries his child under the !huin plant 862
- his eyes shine like fires 862
- is tricked and marries the She-Hyena 862
- mistakes the She-Hyena for his wife 862
- removes his wife's Lynx-hair 862
- stabs the She-Hyena with his assegai 862
- the Dawn's Heart star 862
- the Hyenas had made his heart angry 862

Day's Heart's child
- and the Blue Crane 49
- angers and offends 45
- appearance of 45, 49
- beauty of 45
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- colour of 45, 49
- Dawn's Heart's 45
- flesh of is red 45
- is praised 49
- is white 49
- laughs 45
- mocks the Jackal 49
- mocks those who are not handsome 45
- wanted by the Jackal as her daughter 49
- who resembles her Day's Heart's father 45

Day's Hearts
- are sky's things 262
- Day's Heart star's discourse 262
- live in heaven 262
- stars 262
- the doings of 262

ddabba-i
- and the education of |xam children by their elders 853
- and the foolish actions of children 853
- and understanding 853

Ddi xerreten
- and the Lioness 837, 837
- his head is a stone 837
- is a person of the Early Race 837
- liberates and returns the children their homes 837
- the Lioness hurts her teeth biting his stone head 837
- what he says to the children 837

dead
- 'come as a fighting party' 854
- 'do not possess their thinking strings' 854
- and life after death 854
- are called 'old people' 854
- are eaten by sorcerers 721
- cause illness 854
- children are taught not to say their names at night 854
- come to kill a person 854
- do not understand 854
- dreaming about them 854
- harm the living 854
- human beings 721
- people become spirit–-people after they die 854
- saying their names at night avoided 854
- teachings about 854
- the name for is 'spirit–-people' 854
- their names may be spoken at noon 854
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, calls them 854

dead Bushmen
- and the Hare and the Moon and |xue 1057
- smell badly 1057
- their bags are thrown by the Hare into their country 1057

dead man
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- his bag 1049
- his dress after death 1049
- his father arranges his body 1049
- his head rests on his bag 1049
- his things 1049
- wears a |ou's horn 1049
- wears jackal's feet and tail and skin 1049

dead people
- are those who rode the Rain 865
- rain-sorcerers 865

death
- !kun beliefs about 1101
- !kun customs at 983, 984, 993, 999, 1048, 1049
- !kun story of creation of 1057
- !kun terms for 1088
- !kwarra-an's husband ≠gerri-sse and a son were shot by a Dutch man 398
- !kweiten ta ||ken's relations were 'killed by sorcery' 438
- !nanni's experience of 1041
- 'another child must die' 984
- 'death news' 429
- 'his heart is that on account of which he throws up earth' 800
- 'making cloud' 545
- 'mere' spirits go away 1102
- 'when we shoot our death' 708
- a baboon's are like a man's 545
- a child's gargling can kill the father 501
- a dead man has a mere spirit as well as another which is a snake 1102
- a description of 148
- a dream of 461
- a dust that causes 497
- a snake found near a grave 1101
- a widow married by her dead husband's next brother 1078
- about the sorceress !kwarra-an 398
- about various people known by |han≠kass'o 871
- accidental 250
- actions after 1048, 1049
- actions at 993, 999
- after chasing springbok in the sun 800
- an earthquake seeks people who will die 525
- an Egyptian myth about 327
- and !kun marriage customs 1078
- and !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and !nana-an, or calling to the wounded springbok 849
- and !nanni's family 1041
- and 'a person who rains' 879
- and 'killing magic' of sorcerers 523
- and 'killing' rain 274, 452
- and a man's poisoned flesh 101
- and a prayer addressed to the Moon 464
- and a snake lying on its back 1100
- and a snake which announces a death in the family 1100
- and a snake which must not be killed 1100
- and a song sung by Xaa-ttin about the broken string 459
- and actions of the moon 462
- and actions of the springbok and gemsbok 429
- and afterlife 219
- and an extract copied down by Lloyd 327
- and ancestors 532
- and animals found near graves 1101
- and apparitions 532
- and arrows that miss 716
- and beasts of prey 424
- and birds that wait for 929
- and black snakes 1102
- and burial 219, 250, 349, 984, 993, 999, 1101
- and burial and rain 879
- and cleansing rituals 1093
- and cursing 910
- and dead wind–sorcerers or windmakers 538
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and dreams 854
- and dust 461
- and dust signals 800
- and earthquakes 493, 525
- and falling hearts 531
- and falling stars 491, 493, 525, 531
- and falling stars and hearts 526
- and flowers 531
- and further particulars regarding purification 1098
- and graves 1114
- and graves or 'grounds' of the dead 1101
- and how people were once reborn, like the Moon 464
- and how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- and hunting 349
- and illness 497, 708
- and illness from eating too much of the Maiya plant 1086
- and lions 424
- and living again of male ostriches 913
- and locusts and locust birds 523
- and magic 148, 497
- and making cuts on the bow when a baboon is killed 545
- and methods of punishment for favoured by the !kun 1082
- and Moon and Hare 217
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and Moon's message about living again 332
- and more about sorcerers 494
- and mourning 250, 983
- and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers 560
- and murder 1114
- and night 250
- and old kaross 250
- and place where dead go 219
- and possession 521
- and purification after shooting and killing another person 1093
- and Ralston's extract on mythology 327
- and resurrection 66, 114, 148, 217, 332, 363, 364, 365, 464, 1026, 1033, 1039, 1057
- and resurrection of |kaggen's son, !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- and resurrection of |xue 1031, 1038
- and revenge 497
- and saying the names of the dead 854
- and seeing the dead 532
- and shooting stars and hearts 526
- and sleeping in ashes 983
- and song of the |kam-ssin !ku 976
- and sorcerers 525
- and sorcerers who kill people with magic 523
- and spirit-animals 1101, 1102
- and spirit-lizards 1101
- and spirit-people 493
- and spirit-snakes 1101
- and spirits 532, 1102
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and standing at dawn 499
- and stars 531
- and sticks that seek people 500
- and swallows 521
- and the !kun 993, 999, 1043, 1114
- and the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- and the 'old people' or the dead 854
- and the 'wound's clot' or 'blood clot' 706
- and the actions of sorcerers 532
- and the actions of springbok 461
- and the bad consequences of beating the kaross on the ground 497
- and the bad consequences of disrespecting magic things 523
- and the broken string 458
- and the burial of |kuken-|u |unu and the girls 722
- and the consequences of a woman's smelling Ssho |oa scent 315
- and the consequences of standing at dawn 500
- and the dead person's snake 1100
- and the doings of crows 929
- and the dream 1002
- and the drought which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve 751
- and the explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 428
- and the falling hearts of sorcerers 493
- and the game that takes hunters to their deaths 424
- and the giving of !kweiten ta ||ken's name 438
- and the Hare and the Moon: their speech 1106
- and the Hare's bag of illness 1057
- and the heart that aches 1102
- and the ill effects of the !ho: a whirlwind 500
- and the making of clouds 545
- and the making of the grave 879
- and the Moon 179, 468
- and the Moon pierced by the Sun 11
- and the Moon which returns again 1057
- and the Moon's curse 464
- and the rain 461, 879
- and the raising of the dead man's children 1078
- and the resurrection of male ostriches 913
- and the return to life of the dead Bushmen 1057
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's injured throat 400
- and the spirit-antelope 1101
- and the springbok's story 427
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the transformation of the !khau lizard into mountain passes 696
- and the treatment of strangers 1114
- and the wind 461
- and the young moon's story 1043
- and the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- and the young woman who says 'the spoor of the crows abounds by me' 929
- and the ||hin snake 1100
- and throwing shadows 525
- and transformation 1031, 1033
- and transformation of |xue 1038
- and uxoricide 1080
- and weapons used by the !kun 1041
- and when a man's flesh moves 102
- and why Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo received his name 435
- and widow's story 253
- and wife-killing 1043
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |uma's capture 1112
- and |xue 1038, 1057
- and |xue's changes 1039
- and |xue's resurrection 1036, 1045
- and |xue's speech to the Hare 1092
- and |xue's transformation 1026, 1036
- and |xue's transformations 1012, 1017, 1045
- and |xue, the Hare and the Moon 1057
- and ||kabbo's place 430
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- animals and spirits of the dead 1101
- animals that die 66
- another man takes the dead man's arrows 993
- asking dead game sorcerers for food 442
- avenging 1114
- behaviour at 250, 984
- being 'quickly' or not-quite-dead 1088
- beliefs about 879, 999
- birds await a person's 930
- birds such as crows wait for the person to die 930
- black men poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt 400
- burial and avenging a death 1114
- can be seen in water 531
- caused by hunting accidents 250
- caused by sorcery 497
- caused by the !ho 499
- children kill the star 1083
- children must not say the name of the dead at night 854
- clouds come out after 462
- creation of 114, 1092
- crying of the wind is an evil omen of 535
- customs and rituals surrounding 250
- customs at 722
- customs observed at 722
- dead 'remain so' 114
- dead carried in the Moon 468
- dead children do not eat 984
- dead men become snakes 1102
- dead sorcerers 446
- dead sorcerers have power after death 538
- dead sorcerers or Rainmakers have power over the rain 456
- dead sorcerers rode and possess the Rain 865
- Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- Dia!kwain's family threatened with 435
- Dia!kwain's relatives 'killed with' sorcery 435
- different kinds of spirits 1102
- different ways of dying 1102
- different ways of dying and being killed 249
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706
- dream that Dia!kwain had before he heard of the death of his father 461
- dress after 1049
- due to a curse 497
- due to lack of sense 497
- due to starvation and drought 751
- eating the mantis results in 1060
- fighting and violence amongst the !kun 1041
- flesh that becomes cold and dies 101
- flesh that dies 102
- flesh that is living or dead 101
- foretelling 429, 461, 531
- from a 'killing' rain 275
- from elephant 1102
- from illness 219
- from snakebite 1102
- from the heat of the sun 800
- further changes of |xue 1031
- gambro can kill people 642
- game 'knows' people's deaths 424
- game leads people to 427
- great hole 219
- Hamerkop tells news of 531
- Hare objects to the odour of decay 1057
- Hendrik Ronebout's father killed by a 'Boer' 489
- his family cry greatly 1048
- his son leaves for his father's father's country 1048
- his things are not given to another person 1048
- his widow leaves for her mother's country 1048
- ill-effects of eating gambro 642
- in Tamme's country the dead become ||gan-a, or a dream 1002
- in the family 1100
- its creation 1107
- killing a wife 1080
- killing members of one's family 1041
- killing the dream and the trance dance 1002
- leaving the place of 722
- life after 854, 1102
- lizards and antelopes found near graves are feared 1101
- locusts and locust birds are dangerous things or 'fighting things' 523
- lying in the 'old hut' 722
- making a good wound 706
- making springbok become faint 849
- making the springbok 'lie down' and die 706
- making the springbok's heart descend or 'fall' 849
- man killed by a lion 10
- Moon and Hare story 1106
- Moon and Sun and Hares 1107
- more about |xue 1033
- names of dead respected 1082
- names of spirits feared 1082
- news of 461
- of !kun 983
- of !kwai-!kwa killed by a leopard 483
- of !nanni or Tamme's aunt, killed by elephants 982
- of !nanni's little brother 999
- of !nanni's uncle, |un'ta 1041
- of 'food animals' 66
- of 'handsome' or 'good–looking' people 720
- of a companion 716
- of a husband 1078
- of a |xam called !kauru-ttin 779
- of animals 66, 114, 217, 219, 1057
- of animals that people eat 66
- of aunt 982
- of babies 491
- of baboons 553
- of Boers or Dutch 219
- of children 984
- of Da's parents and other members of his family 1116
- of Dia!kwain's father 461
- of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- of flesh 66
- of Hare's mother 363, 364
- of hunter 250
- of huntsman 253
- of ill people 365
- of Jan Plat's brother Ruyter who was beaten to death by a 'Boer' 539
- of Kki-a-||ken and some other |xam 522
- of Korannas 219
- of man 66
- of man accidentally wounded by another while hunting springbok 250
- of men shot by others 219
- of Moon 216, 217, 332
- of new maidens 531
- of people 66, 217, 249, 332, 332, 364, 365, 1057, 1106, 1107
- of people 'eaten' by sorcerers, who are like lions 720
- of people due to black lightning 902
- of people killed by sorcerers 493
- of people shot with sorcerer's arrows 720
- of people who must return to life after dying 114
- of sorcerers 493
- of sorcerers or rainmakers 491
- of springbok 706
- of stars when they fall to earth 1083
- of Tamme's brothers 994
- of Tamme's father 995
- of Tamme's younger brother 984
- of the !khau 696
- of the children put into the water by the Makoba 1116
- of the Hare 1092
- of the Hare's mother 464
- of the men who hunted Lions with bones 756
- of the men who hunted Lions with bones - further details 759
- of the Moon 11, 37
- of the mother Hare 66
- of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 458, 459
- of the star's man 826
- of the wife killed by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed 1080
- of those who dwell on the earth 66
- of widow's husband 253
- of women 1043
- of |a!kunta's grandmother 148
- of |han≠kass'o's uncle kkuirri-ttu at the hands of white men 670
- of |uma's half-brother 1112
- of |uma's relative killed by an arrow 1114
- of |xam 219, 249, 489, 539, 670, 779
- of |xam at the hands of white and black men 871
- of |xue 1012, 1031, 1033, 1036, 1045
- of |xue and his transformations 1028
- of |xue's father-in-law 1026
- of ||kabbo's brother and sister-in-law 290
- of ||kannu the 'Rain's man' 276
- of ||khwih and his companions 871
- of ≠kasin's brother carried off by a lion 335
- omens of 461, 535, 1100
- on hunting ground 250
- on the hunting ground 424
- on the hunting-ground 716, 800
- origin of 217
- origins of 1057
- path of First Bushmen 219
- people 'altogether die' 363, 464
- people 'altogether' die 364, 365
- people become a different thing after 532
- people become part of the sky after 462
- people become spirit–-people after 854
- people change form after 532
- people who are killed by sorcery 560
- people will vanish and disappear 365
- practices surrounding 148
- presentiments of 461, 531
- respect for and fearing the dead 993
- rituals for successful hunting after 716
- signs relating to and news of 1100
- snakes and spirits of the dead 1102
- song about mourning loss of a son 976
- sorcerers do not altogether die 446
- sorcerers enter people as swallows and kill them or make them ill 521
- sorcerers hearts become falling stars when they die 494
- sorcerers kill people who disrespect magic things 521
- sorcerers kill with invisible arrows 720
- sorcerers smell people who die 560
- spirit-animals live near graves 1102
- spirit-people 442, 456
- spirit-people or |nu-!ke 446
- spirit–people or dead sorcerers 538
- Ssho |oa can kill and cause illness 315
- Ssu-!kui-ten-tta or Snore-White-Lying died at the Breakwater Convict Station 428
- stars 1083
- stars take hearts away 526
- stones which kill thrower 147
- story of the old man who makes rain 274
- superstitions regarding 1100
- taking off the skin after 532
- Tamme's father killed a person and was killed by 'another man' 995
- Tamme's father's heart ached and he slept in ashes 983
- Tamme's uncle 'kills' another child 984
- teachings about 526
- the !ho makes people ill and kills them 499
- the 'heart falls' 461
- the actions of nursing mothers to prevent 491
- the actions of the child 1048
- the actions of the daughter 1049
- the actions of the dead man's mother 1049
- the actions of the game foretell 429
- the actions of the parents of dead children 984
- the actions of the widow 1048, 1049
- the arrangement of the body 1049
- the baboon's hair and Ssho |oa used as charm against illness 553
- the body is arranged only by the dead man's father 1049
- the cleansing of a man who has killed another 1098
- the consequences of 'missing the game' 708
- the creation of 332, 365, 464, 1106
- the crying wind foretells 535
- the dead 'do not possess their thinking strings' 854
- the dead and snakes 1101
- the dead are carried by the moon 462
- the dead go into the Moon 999
- the dead have wind 462
- the dead make clouds 462
- the dead man's bow and stick 993
- the dead person's 'gall' 462
- the dream kills people because its heart aches 1002
- the falling of the heart 309
- the falling-down-heart 327
- the fatal hunting adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- the forms the dead take 532
- the game knows or senses 427
- the game's presentiment of 427
- the grave 993
- the Hare and his kind decay and die outright 1107
- the Hare cries for all those who die outright 1106
- the Hare gets the Moon's message wrong and tells people that they will 'thoroughly' die 114
- the Hare objects to smell of 1106
- the Hare who fears death and |xue 1092
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the killing of the ||gaun-a or ghost 1113
- the Maiya 'kills' people 1086
- the making of graves by the !kun 984
- the making of the grave 999
- the man killed by a lion and the search for him 228
- the Moon and Hare 332
- the Moon and Sun 216
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of 114, 468
- the Moon and the Hare's speeches about 464
- the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain 363
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- the Moon and the little Hare 66
- the Moon decays and grows small then comes alive again 11
- the Moon lives again 363, 364, 365
- the Moon's message about 363
- the mother mourns her daughter 1080
- the origin of 66, 364, 464
- the other people leave the place and go to another country 993
- the other people leave the place of death another day 999
- the people ask spirit–people for wind 538
- the people travel to a 'different place' after 722
- the place where |xam go after 249
- the rain washes out a dead man's footsteps 879
- the star man's name is not uttered 826
- the Sun and Moon only die a little 1107
- the Sun pierces the full Moon with his knife 179
- the treatment of widows 1078
- the wind 'blows dust' after 462
- the wind blows away footprints after 462
- things that foretell 531
- things that make the people afraid 1048
- those who return and those who die outright 1106
- time of 250
- to 'stand' 458
- unsuccessful hunting after 716
- uxoricide 1080
- ways of dying 253
- what children are taught about 854
- what Dia!kwain's mother told him about 462
- what happens after 526, 532
- what happens at the time of 526
- what happens when people die 462, 879
- what happens when someone is about to die 461
- what Hare tells people about 363, 364, 365
- what parents teach their children in the event of their 413
- what the dead man wears 1049
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, told him about 854
- when a person's snoring does not lie down 782
- when darkness obstructs the animal's eyes 849
- when heart falls 250
- when hearts 'fall' down 722
- when sorcerers seek people to take away 525
- when sorcerers want to kill people they change into birds and jackals 430
- when the heart 'falls' during 'snoring 720
- while 'snoring' 720
- why Bushmen kill hares 1092
- why the dead harm the living 854
- wife-killing 1080
- wishing 'a fight' upon another 910
- wishing it upon others 497
- women become mere spirits 1102
- women become snakes if they die of snakebite 1102
- women intoxicated by the Maiya leave for another country and are killed there 1086
- Xurri ko killed by a lion 383
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen as the hartebeest feigns 101
- |kaggen brings his son back to life 666
- |nu-!ke or magicians who have died still possess power 446
- |xam beliefs about 462
- |xam killed by black men 779
- |xannan |xannan asked for wind 538
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and his father fight and die and shoot at each other 1038
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue as ostrich and other things 1025
- |xue dies and changes form 1036
- |xue dies and goes into his fire 1045
- |xue dies and is eaten 1039
- |xue dies and is eaten by flies 1025
- |xue dies and lets flies eat him 1028
- |xue dies and returns in a different form 1033
- |xue dies and returns to life in other forms 1031
- |xue dies as a large bird 1028
- |xue dies in different forms 1028
- |xue does not really die 1017
- |xue had not died altogether 1045
- |xue is sometimes dead and sometimes alive 1017
- |xue kills his child 1026
- |xue kills his father 1033
- |xue lives and dies 1017, 1039
- |xue's father makes him a grave 1045
- |xue's father returns to life because he is |xe ||n'u and does not die outright 1045
- |xue's wife comes to life at sunset 1045
- |xue, his father and changes 1036
- ||kabbo tells of 219

decayed piece
- called Foulmouth 187
- cuts off its thigh 187
- of Muishond 187
- talks to Lion 187
- tells thornbush to pierce Lion's feet 187
- the Lion and the Muishond 187

Dia!kwain
- a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- about his relations 437
- accounting for his father's name 502
- advised by his grandfather to swallow the ostrich's lungs whole and raw 406
- and his aunt, Ttanno !khauken the sorceress 433
- and his father Xaa-ttin's song about the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- and his travels with Jan Plat 572
- and Jan Plat at Charlton House, Mowbray 571
- and sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- and the 'Boers' or Dutch 461
- and the angry rain 511
- and the apparition of a little child 532
- and the broken string 459
- and the thunderstorm 511
- and the |nu-!ke or magicians who have died and who still possess power 446
- and |xannan |xannan, the wind-sorceress 538
- caused his mother to be struck by lightning 511
- caused lightning to strike 511
- David Hoesar 117, 124
- David Huzaar 117
- David Huzar 117
- different spellings of his 'Boer' name 117
- disobeyed his mother 511
- explanation of the name which his mother gave him 495
- feeding his child 429
- foresaw his father's death 461
- game once tame: why it grew wild 490
- genealogy of 117
- his ancestors 456
- his brother Ko-bbo became ill after eating Ttanno !khauken's springbok 433
- his brother Ko-boken and the !ho 499
- his brother-in-law, Mansse 532
- his brothers and sisters 437
- his cousin Ttai tchuen and the lioness 450
- his dream 461
- his dream of the death of his father 461
- his explanation of his mother's little name 479
- his family threatened 435
- his father asks the dead rainmaker, !nuin-|kui-ten, for rain 456
- his father is Xaa-ttin 502
- his father Xaa-ttin was taught magic by the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- his father Xaa-ttin's chippings 554
- his father Xaa-ttin's prayer for rain 456
- his father's name is Xaa-ttin 461
- his fight with the 'Kafir' who strangled his throat 400
- his first wife was called Mietje 429
- his grandfather !xugen-ddi and the tame game 490
- his grandfather asks |xannan |xannan for wind 536
- his insides ached when one of his people was dying 461
- his mother ≠kamme-an's prayer to the spirit-people 446
- his mother's little name was |ko-an 479
- his people roast and eat the porcupine on the hunting-ground 627
- his personal history 124, 397, 400, 429, 433, 435, 437, 441, 445, 450, 456, 458, 461, 479, 490, 495, 499, 502, 508, 511, 532, 536, 538, 554
- his place 532
- his relations 435, 450, 456, 461, 499, 532
- his relations killed by sorcery 435
- his sister |a-kkumm and the lion 445
- his travels with Jan Plat 571
- his uncle |uherre and his power over ostriches 442
- his wife's burial 429
- how his mother removed the evil influences of bad dreams 465
- Jan Plat leaves Calvinia with 572
- made the rain angry and want to kill them 511
- mode of eating porcupine 627
- names of relations of 117
- personal history of 117
- place of 117
- played the !goura in a thunderstorm 511
- plays the bow in a thunderstorm 511
- sees an apparition returning from his wife's funeral 532
- springbok and gemsbok knew the death of his wife 429
- the actions of the game that foretold his wife's death 429
- the advice his mother gave him about the tortoise 124
- the death of his father 461
- the death of his wife 429
- the giving of his uncle |kai kwa's name 441
- the harm done to his relations 400
- the names of his relations 400, 437, 441, 456, 461, 508, 532, 554
- the naming of his brother Ko-bbo 435
- the naming of his brother-in-law, Mansse 508
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- was advised by Snore-White-Lying 429
- was healed as a boy 397
- was snored by sorceress !kwarra-an 400
- what Jan Plat heard about 572
- when he left Mowbray 572
- Xaa-ttin's accident 502

dialect
- !Ora, or 'Hottentot' 946
- 'the other part of our language' 775
- a language that is different 775
- and rock painting copy no. 2 801
- Kareebergen Stuurmansfontein 96, 97
- Katkop, given by ≠kasin 107
- Katkop, words given by ≠kasin 113
- Namaqua 946
- names of animals given at the SA Museum 107
- of Stuurmansfontein 304
- of the !kun or 'Ongova Bushmen' of Hereroland 948
- of the 'River Bed people', or Tka-sso !keten 775
- of the |ke |ke ||en 775
- of |xam 775
- of |xam spoken by 'Grass Bushmen' 801
- spoken by 'Berg' or 'Mountain Bushmen', or !kaogen !ke 775
- spoken by |han≠kass'o's fellows 775
- spoken in Bushmanland 775
- understanding another Bushman's language 775
- |xam 96, 304

dictionary 10, 142
- 10, 142
- !Ora, or 'Hottentot' 946
- given by Adam Kleinhardt 2
- given by |a!kunta 4
- Namaqua 946
- names of animals 12
- names of animals given by |a!kunta in the SA Museum 31
- Setshuana 946
- words and sentences given by ≠kasin 47
- words and sentences got at Breakwater 139
- words and sentences including the name of a poison 48
- |xam 31

diet
- and Day's Heart 45
- eating of baboons 224
- of animals and people 45
- of cattle 579
- of different groups of |xam 224

different
- !kuken !kakka !ani, the Ostrich which is 38
- and Day's Heart 45
- animals which are 260
- Lynx is 45
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen's fight with 38

different things
- the Sun and Moon are 32

digging
- 'pot's hole' 823
- 'stick's hole' 823
- actions while 316
- and collecting Ssho |oa 314
- and edible plants found near water 757
- and killing 'Bushman rice' 317
- and sieves used by the Early Race 861
- and the ignorant man who digs up Ssho |oa 316
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- by a Ssho |oa's man 316
- by men and women 832
- by women for main roots 757
- for !haken 668
- for !haken and 'Bushman rice' 861
- for 'Bushman rice' 659
- for food 668
- for Ssho |oa 309, 312
- for the earth used to make clay pots 823
- is women's hunting 317
- out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- safe 316
- Ssho |oa's-digging 316
- stick used by men and woman 832
- teaching of 316
- the man spits into the Ssho |oa's hole so it may know him 314
- the use of the digging stick 659
- various foods and the protection of the rain for a fungus 668
- ways of 316
- what man says to the Ssho |oa so it may know him 314
- |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659

digging stick
- !kwa !kwa wood 57
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- from springbok's horn point 57
- is thrust into a bored stone 57
- used by men, with no stone 832
- used by women, weighted by a stone 832

digging-stick stone
- and the making of arrows 851
- the !kui 851
- used to straighten reeds 851

direction
- of a new water–pool 859
- signs made on leaving a place to show 859
- where the people have gone 859

Dirk
- !xein, son of Dootje 774
- the younger brother of |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi 774

discourse
- and the Jackal's speech 263, 266
- Day's Heart star's 263, 266
- Ichneumon's to |kaggen 269
- of the Day's Heart star to his daughter 256
- the doings of the jackals 263
- what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter 262

dish
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and the treatment of bones 733
- bones placed in 707
- of an ostrich breastbone for the porcupine's bones 733
- ostrich breast-bone made into 707

divining
- !kun methods of 1050
- 'assents to me about the thing' 1042
- by the !kun 1042
- four pieces – two male and two female 1042
- future events 1050
- it is a 'Bushman institution' 1042
- methods 1042
- performed by men 1050
- the Hare's pieces 1057, 1092
- the Hare's pieces are made of giraffe's skin 1092
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the Makoba call the set |nu |num 1042
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the pieces of wood used 1057
- the pieces of wood used by the !kun of !nanni's country 1050
- the set of pieces, or |xu 1042
- the wood pieces used for 1042
- the |xu, or wood pieces used 1050
- what is used for 1042

divining pieces
- and the !ke tree 1050
- are respected and feared by women 1050
- feared by the daughter/women 1050
- handled by the son/men 1050
- only handled by men 1050
- the set called |xu 1050
- the wood used 1050
- used by the father 1050

doctor
- Dr P.G. Stewart 176
- white 176
- ||kabbo's visit to 176

doctoring
- by old women 717
- healing 717
- of the sorcerer's arrow-wounds 717
- see healing 101

doctoring ceremony
- more about |xue 1033
- performed by |xue for his father 1033
- |xue kills his father and performs one 1033

dog
- a ceremony performed by maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- an incantation to 507
- and !khwe-|na ssho-!kui 283
- and a girl's saliva 507
- and a review of the parade 883
- and animals eaten 794
- and breaking a bone of the game that it has killed 507
- and hunting baboons 552
- and its successful hunting of game 507
- and Jackal's song 86
- and new maidens 507
- and the ceremony performed by the new maiden 507
- and the Jackal's plant 794
- at the parade 883
- baboons are ashamed of a girl's 552
- baboons fears a girl's 552
- belonging to !gou !nui 603
- called 'Blom' 603
- defending and protecting it from baboons 552
- given to Tsatsi by |gappem-ttu which kills many jackals 745
- hunting dog 86
- hunting with one 161
- is a girl's thing 552
- is bewitched by the new maiden 507
- jackal crosses its spoor 86
- that leaves game 507
- that plays with game 507
- that took ||kabbo's tobacco bag 603
- the plant used for healing one that is sick 794
- the protection of 507
- the young Lion used as a hunting dog 283
- Tsatsi's 745
- used for hunting 552
- used for hunting jackal 745
- when its heart becomes bad 507
- |xui tatin and the dog 74
- ≠kasin hunts with 337

Dog
- called !kuin'ssi-|kauoken 894
- of the Early Race 894
- the young He-Dog who poisoned his wife the Quagga 894

dogs
- and Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- belonging to black men 810
- how they are revived 1086
- hunting with 349
- in rock painting copy no. 9 810
- of Tamme's country do not tire 1005
- the imitation of gemsbok and dogs in the ||ken dance 434
- the odour of the Maiya plant makes them faint 1086
- used by |xam as protection from lions 260
- which are called 'wind's dogs' 810

drawing
- !nanni's, of the |kui 1108
- with ||hara and tto 767

drawings
- made by Dia!kwain's father 473
- made in rooi klip, or red haematite 473
- on ostrich skin and rocks 473

dream
- about 461
- and avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- and death 1002
- and doctoring 1002
- and premonition 425
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the trance dance 1001, 1002
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212
- as a presentiment or prophecy 461
- as an omen of death 461
- description of 1002
- Dia!kwain's spoke like a person 461
- dies when the ill person is doctored 1002
- does not deceive 461
- enters the country 1002
- foretells death 461
- in Tamme's country 1002
- in which Tamme sees his mother 1002
- in which |kaggen predicts the death of the !khau 906
- in which |kaggen predicts things 906
- it puts a 'thing' in people 1002
- its apron is made of ko o 1002
- its back-dress is made of mouse's skin 1002
- its body is small and resembles a person's 1002
- its heart aches 1002
- its house 1002
- its house is small and made of grass and resembles that of a bird 1002
- kills a person 1002
- kills people because its heart aches 1002
- lions dream and have premonitions 424, 425
- lions which 266
- makes people ill 1001, 1002
- of !nanni and Tamme's country 1002
- of a gang of prisoners 831
- of death 461
- of family 214
- of rain 214
- of the lion 421, 424, 425
- of the man who falls upon the Lion 24

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