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Story: |xue and his father
Title
|xue and his father
Collection
Summary
|xue bites his father, breaking his father's finger. |xue's father goes away. |xue becomes a shana (the fruit of a small tree). The rain falls on him, and he lies down and cries when the rain is over. His father hears him and throws him over his shoulder. |xue cries very loudly so his father puts him down and he follows his father. |xue grabs a little |ou (a little buck, probably a steenbok) from some birds (!kuara). |xue's father roasts some of the meat and leaves for his own country. |xue sits at the fire and cries for his father to carry him. |xue hears his father's laughing and gets up, crying. He becomes rain and tells the rain to pour down on his father. |xue's father beats |xue and tells his wife to give |xue to another person so they can kill him. |xue hears this and cries and his father leaves. |xue follows his father and at sunrise he becomes !naxane. |xue's father puts two of the !naxane into his bag. |xue changes back to |xue and |xue's father searches for the !naxane. |xue climbs a !gua tree and refuses to come down, being afraid of being beaten. |xue's mother slaps him so that he falls from the tree. |xue becomes a lizard (gora) and then a bird (called ||kanna-tatta). [It says 'to be continued' on page 9489v, but it is not clear where the story is taken up.]
Comments
1) p.9436v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu); the names of different dress (front-dress and tails); the names for noises made by beating different parts of the body with a knobkerrie, 2) p.9442v: (6 May 1880) the names of dress worn by men and women (short skin apron, long apron, woman's front dress, male's front dress), 3) p.9446v: names for tinder and tinderbox used by the !kun and the Ovaherero; 4) pp.9458v-9468v: see !nanni's uncle, 5) p.9460v: the Biriko yau are people who live near the Makoba, 6) p.9472v: names for the times of day, 7) p.9488v: a note about the names of sticks: this relates to !nanni's drawing of 15 June 1880 (see NLLB_D_!n044); !nanni's father's name, 8) This story is found in Book XI & XII-6
Contributors
Date
1 May – 7 June 1880
Categories
Keywords
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Story Pages
9437-9438, 9443-9448, 9459-9490, 9489v
