The Digital Bleek & Lloyd

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

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

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

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

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

Page Images

Image File: A2_1_7_00189.JPG

Book: BC_151_A2_1_007

Image File: A2_1_7_00190.JPG

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Image File: A2_1_7_00191.JPG

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Image File: A2_1_7_00192.JPG

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Image File: A2_1_7_00193.JPG

Book: BC_151_A2_1_007

Image File: A2_1_7_00194.JPG

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Image File: A2_1_7_00195.JPG

Book: BC_151_A2_1_007