Notebooks
Story: Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_010
Title
Dorothea Bleek - Book BC151_A3_010
Collection
Summary
Reporters' Note Book. Naron language notebook. Words and sentences, some personal history. Reference made to recordings made by DB. Some information regarding customs and daily life.
Comments
1) p.01-05: Tsaxas, words and sentences including different peoples in the area and their languages; 2) p.05: 'Bushmen pushed more into the desert by the Hottentots further into the desert'; 3) p.07: reference to Stow pictures; 4) p.08: Bushmen who were servants of the Masarwa; 5) p.09-011: Names and personal history of ≠nabbe ta mas or Lena, men's and women's dances, different groups of Bushmen and their languages, customs, poisons and artefacts used by her people; 6) p.012: 'Dance to melody of Elandbull dance', roles played by men and women and dress, tattooing description; 7) p.013: reference to numbered records (recordings); 8) p.015: 28.3.1920. Vichanas [?]. Names and descriptions of people, some of them Naron-speakers; 9) p.018: names and personal history of various people; 10) p.019: Some history of the region, and some of the people who live there (Vichanas[?]), |kaiku a Naron-speaker who grew up there and some of his personal history; 11) p0.22: Vichenas[?] 29.3.21; 12) p.033: said on Record IX: 'the man who wanted to marry her first had a big swelling on the jaw[?] so she would not marry him', 'I had two kinders but they both died.', 'he had killed a jackal in the veld and eaten it up...'; 13) p.036: 16.11.21. Sandfontein. Words including plants and flowers; 14) p.040: Anni u [?] 18.11.21; 15) p.044-057: Anni u 19.11.21. Mostly names of and uses for plants eg. buchu; 16) p.058: 22.11.21. Anni u gives an account of a man travelling by wagon and donkey, words; 17) p.062-064: 'The question has often been put to me: what use can be made of the Bushmen?' [looks to be an article or a report by DB in very rough form]; 18) p.065: continued from 22[?], !nau - about catching food with a trap; 19) p.066: 23.11.21. |ki ke. Featuring some details of personal history; 20) p.071: 24.11.21. |kwi kui; 21) p.076: Anni u. 24.11.21; 22) p.080-081: 25.11.21. About the rain: 'rain falls much rain a deal of rain the rain speaks, the rain cries out thunder, in the sky the sky's water comes down water will lie in the pan'; 23) p.083-084: 'the little bird becomes a wizard', about birds, jackals and other things eaten, digging a well, ants, snails etc; 24) p.088: 28.11.21. Anni u. Words including smoking, wearing karosses; 25) p.090: 29.11.21. Doebo [?] includes some personal history, his travels; 26) p. 091: Anni u. 30.11.21. About Babi xaa, a Naron-speaker who also speaks the White man's language.
Contributors
Anni u, |ki ke, |kaiku, ≠nabbe ta mas (Lena)
Date
1920-21
Categories
Words and sentences, History (personal), Custom and daily life
Story Pages
1-094
