Notebooks
Story: Words and sentences: names and descriptions of animals, and a song
Title
Words and sentences: names and descriptions of animals, and a song
Collection
Summary
The |xam (and Dutch) names of animals found in Bushmanland. The piece includes the eating and description of animals. A note on p.189 mentions a song of the |xam, 'which is sung to the !goura'.
Comments
1) Note on the inside of the back cover of this notebook: 'Finished correcting Sept 15/71 from Jantje Toorm himself', 2) This story is found in Book II-1
Contributors
Date
23 February – 24 October 1871
Categories
Words and sentences, Poetry, Plants and animals
Keywords
song (|xam) , song (sung to !goura) , !goura (song sung to) , !goura (a musical instrument) , musical instrument (the !goura) , musical instrument (and song) , words and sentences (names of animals) , vocabulary (|xam) , animals (names of) , animals (the eating of) , name (of a musical instrument, the !goura) , name (names of animals)
Story Pages
189-195
