Notebooks
Story: Words and sentences (dictionary and genealogies)
Title
Words and sentences (dictionary and genealogies)
Collection
Summary
Words and sentences, principally concerning daily life, including a lion killing a man and going into the heavens (289).
Comments
1) This story contains many notes on the verso pages concerning names of |xam, their genealogies, the names of places where they come from and the names of different groups of |xam (see pp.114v, 221v and 270v), 2) p.305v: the |xam name for a lion used by children, 3) p.315v: insert: a letter addressed to 'Dr Bleek Mowbray' concerning |xam vocabulary, 4) Notes were added later throughout October 1871 (see pp.250v-255v), 5) Words and sentences by ||kabbo (Jantje) were added throughout February 1871 (see p.268), 6) This story is found in Book I and Book II
Contributors
|a!kunta (Stoffel) (I), ||kabbo (Jantje) (II)
Date
September-December 1870, January-May 1871
Categories
Keywords
genealogy (|xam) , genealogy (names of |xam) , genealogy (of the |xam contributors) , vocabulary (|xam) , vocabulary (given by |a!kunta) , dictionary, words and sentences (given by |a!kunta) , words and sentences (|xam) , names (of |xam) , names (of relations of the |xam contributors) , lion (that kills a man) , death (man killed by a lion)
Story Pages
67-157, 167-171, 178-209, 211-248, 249-284, 289-290, 296-302, 304, 305-316, 351-353, 358-359, 374-375
