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Story: More about |xue
Title
More about |xue
Collection
Summary
|xue pours water into his pot and carries it on a stick over his shoulder (he has attached an ox-head at the other end of the stick). He trips and wounds his knee and the pot breaks. He leaves the ox-head in the tree and departs for his mother's country with a bag of !naxane. The people hide from |xue. |xue searches for his people in vain, and turns back crying.
Comments
1) p.9803v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu); !nanni made a clay model of the ox-head featured in his story (in the Iziko collection), 2) p.9807v: a reference to one of !nanni's drawings of 16 May 1881 (either Iziko_SAMLB_!nBook1_001 or 002) and some of the names of a bird, 3) p.9809v: see Names of seasons, 4) 9816v: (21 May 1881) see Respecting the eland, 5) This story is found in Book XI & XII-10
Contributors
Date
8 – 20 May 1881
Categories
Keywords
|xue (more about) , |xue (searches for his people) , |xue (cries for his people) , |xue (fears the birds) , |xue (the birds laugh at him) , |xue (a thorn pierces his knee) , |xue (his blood flows) , |xue (departs for his mother's country) , |xue (eats !naxane and shana) , |xue (hides from his people) , |xue (and the ox-head) , |xue (breaks his pot and cries) , |xue (carries the ox-head on a stick) , |xue (hides the ox-head in a !gua tree) , |xue (regards the Sun and his 'heart was comfortable') , |xue (puts the ox-head in a palm tree) , |xue (sleeps in a hole) , |xue (coughs) , |xue (forgets the sun) , |xue (and sunrise and sunset) , |xue (his people search for him) , |xue (merely lay and slept) , |xue (is alone) , |xue (his people stoop and hide from him) , |xue (his people softly ran away from him, quite away) , |xue (he fears his people) , |xue (calls for an owl to fly away) , |xue (his people were silent towards him) , |xue (his people fear him) , |xue (his people do not answer him) , |xue (searches) , |xue (and his things) , |xue (cries) , |xue (lay bare) , |xue (his actions and doings) , |xue (sleeps on the bare ground alone) , plants (!naxane) , plants (shana) , plants (a !gua tree) , plants (a palm tree) , plants (!kun names of) , country (|xue's mother's) , country (more about |xue) , birds (|xue fears) , birds (laugh at |xue) , birds (owl) , birds (more about |xue) , ox (-head and |xue) , ox (more about |xue) , names (!kun, of plants and trees) , pot (|xue's) , pot (more about |xue) , Sun (|xue regards it and his 'heart was comfortable') , heart (Sun makes |xue's comfortable) , heart (more about |xue)
Story Pages
9804-9817
