Title

Flat Bushmen's' poison

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

The |xam smell the poison which is warm and burns their nostrils. 'Grass Bushmen's' poison is a golden colour, 'Flat Bushmen's' poison is from a thorny bush or tree with a milky juice, and 'Flat Bushmen' also use snake venom as poison.

Comments

1) This story is found in Book II-7

Contributors

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

Date

October or November 1871

Categories

Custom and daily life

Keywords

poison (used by 'Flat Bushmen') , poison (description of) , poison (used by 'Grass Bushmen') , poison (the making of) , poison (plants and animals used in making of) , poison (snake venom) , |xam (groups) , snake (venom and making poison) , Flat Bushmen (how they make poison) , Flat Bushmen (about their poison) , Grass Bushmen (how they make poison) , Grass Bushmen (about their poison) , names (of |xam groups) , names (of plants and animals used in making poisons)

Story Pages

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