Title

A man is wounded by another by accident when out after springbok

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

A man shoots another accidentally on the hunting ground. He explains that dust from the springbok prevented him from seeing clearly and the wounded man confirms this. The men tell the women that the accident was a result of their letting the children play inside the house. Different kinds of arrows and wounds are described. The dying man tells his wife how to continue after his death and how to raise the children. His wife laments and prepares to leave for her own family's place. The various ways of dying, and of being killed. A man is accidentally wounded by another, when they were both hunting springbok. Dialogue, in which the wounded man begs them to speak gently, not angrily, to the one who shot him. Unfortunate shots are believed to be due to such causes as the children at home playing on a man’s bed, etc., and are ascribed to the remissness of the wives. The dying man’s last speech to his wife, in which he gives her advice etc. The widow’s lament, in which she says that she should like to cry herself to death; and does not want to eat food. Her mother-in-law comforts her. After the burial of the deceased, his widow returns home to her father, where her brothers receive her very well. She relates her sorrow to her family, and expresses her intention not to marry again, for fear of meeting with a husband who had not the good qualities of the deceased. A general conversation ensues, ending in an almost interminable description of springbok hunting, etc. (L II.-12. 1173-1243, 13. 1244-1314. 14. 1315-1396)

Comments

1) p.1125v: ||kabbo explains hunting behaviours and the putting on of weapons before commencing, 2) p.1224v: in death the heart falls from the throat into the middle of the body, where it remains (see also Lloyd's note on the subject on pp.3356v-3362v), 3) p.1235v: the man tells his wife not to give his children away to other people, 4) p.1253v: gambro can kill children if too much is eaten, 5) p.1266v: |xam carry springbok skin sacks on their backs, whereas black people and Korannas carry them on their heads, 6) See also The story of the widow (from p.1268) and The place to which people go after death, and various ways of dying and being killed, 7) This story is found in Books II-12 and 13

Contributors

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

Date

14 April – May 1872

Categories

Custom and daily life, History (Early Race)

Keywords

death (of man accidentally wounded by another while hunting springbok) , death (time of) , death (when heart falls) , death (behaviour at) , death (customs and rituals surrounding) , death (and mourning) , death (and night) , death (and burial) , death (and old kaross) , death (of hunter) , death (accidental) , death (on hunting ground) , death (caused by hunting accidents) , man (dying) , man (wounded on hunting ground) , man (shot by another) , man (wounded by accident while hunting springbok) , man (his relations) , man (is laid in an old kaross) , man (his speech while dying) , man (what he tells his wife) , man (his death) , man (and behaviour of his children who played inside) , man (his wife is blamed for accident) , man (and the widow) , children (behaviour causes hunting accident) , children (raising of dead man's) , widow (her lament) , widow (is blamed for accident) , widow (customs and ritual surrounding death of her husband) , widow (the mother-in-law's advice to) , widow (her journey) , widow (her relations) , hunting (the man wounded while) , hunting (accidents) , hunting (misfortune on hunting ground) , hunting (springbok) , hunting (and death of hunters) , hunting (different kinds of arrows) , wounds (description of) , wounds (the healing of) , wounds (different types of) , wounds (and death) , wounds (made by arrows) , wounds (causes of) , burial (and death on the hunting ground) , burial (and customs and ritual surrounding death) , burial (and old kaross) , burial (methods of the |xam) , food (gambro) , food (flesh) , food ('Bushman rice') , healing (of hunting wounds) , speech (of the wounded man to his wife) , lament (of the widow of the man wounded out hunting) , kaross (the old) , kaross (and burial) , kaross (and the man wounded while hunting) , arrows (and the wounds they make) , arrows (different kinds of) , springbok (the man wounded while out hunting) , springbok (hunting) , place (the widow's family's) , play (inside the house causes accidents)

Story Pages

1180-1243, 1244-1268

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