Notebooks
Story: |xue, ||namme, and the |nani, or, The |nani
Title
|xue, ||namme, and the |nani, or, The |nani
Collection
Summary
An account of how two !kun (called |xue and ||namme) go into the house of a |nani. They sit down at the |nani's fire to warm themselves because it has been raining. A |nani child sees them and wakes his father and tells him that two !kun are warming themselves at the fire. The !kun men run away and the |nani father chases them and aims at them with his bow and arrow. The |nani throws an axe at the retreating men but misses them and |xue shoots and kills him instead.
Comments
1) p.9311: Tamme heard this from his father (||namme) who heard it from his father (Nakua), 2) Although the title says '|xe', presumably it refers to '|xue' who does appear later in the story to shoot the |nani, 3) p.9312v: the Ovaherero do not come into contact with the |nani because the |nani's country is too far off; the |nani do come into contact with the Makoba and go on or in their boats (it isn't clear for what purpose), 4) This story is found in Book XI & XII-4
Contributors
Tamme (XII) (and possibly additions by !nanni)
Date
11 February 1880 (given on or about)
Categories
Relations with others, Custom and daily life
Keywords
Tamme (his father's name is ||namme) , Tamme (his experience with the |nani) , Tamme (his description of the |nani) , |nani (their appearance) , |nani (a description of them) , |nani (are tall and black) , |nani (have guns which resemble them) , |nani (resemble the Ovaherero) , |nani (Tamme does not understand their language) , |nani (their speech, or language) , |nani (and two !kun called |xue and ||namme) , |nani (one is killed by |xue) , |nani (one tries to catch and kill the two !kun) , |xue (|xe) , |xue (kills the |nani) , |xue (and ||namme, and the |nani) , !kun (their relations with the |nani) , !kun (their relations with others) , names (of peoples in !kun country) , names (of Tamme's relations) , names (the Ovaherero) , names (the |nani) , language (spoken by the |nani) , language (understood by Tamme) , peoples (of Damaraland) , peoples (found in !kun country) , peoples (the Ovaherero) , peoples (the |nani)
Story Pages
9310v-9312v, 9312-9314
