Notebooks
Story: Huts
Title
Huts
Collection
Summary
A brief account of the making of huts, or grass houses. The people put poles into the ground after digging holes. They fix the poles firmly into the holes, putting leaves in the spaces around the poles (or sticks). They cover these over with grass and sweep the floor of their huts.
Comments
1) p.9265v: Piet Lynx's !Ora or Koranna-Hottentot term for 'sweeping', 2) This story is found in Book XI & XII-4
Contributors
Date
27 January 1880
Categories
Custom and daily life, Artefact and dress
Keywords
huts (made by the !kun) , huts (the making of) , huts (houses) , huts (grass) , huts (the use and placement of poles) , !kun (their methods of making houses) , houses (grass) , houses (huts made by the !kun)
Story Pages
9266
