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Story: On women's hunting or |kua

Title

On women's hunting or |kua

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

Women's hunting is called |kua. Women dig out things and 'hunt' prey such as 'Bushman rice'. They 'kill' the rice in its hole (here a figure of speech) because it runs about. Men's hunting is called !hunn.

Comments

1) This story is found in Book II-36

Contributors

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

Date

September 1873

Categories

Custom and daily life

Keywords

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Story Pages

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Page Images

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_042

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_042