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Story: Explanation of Mr G. Stow's pictures: 1 (habits of the hunting leopard)
Title
Explanation of Mr G. Stow's pictures: 1 (habits of the hunting leopard)
Collection
Summary
Dia!kwain comments on George Stow's copy of a Bushman painting (no. 1) which features figures and various animals (numbered). He describes the doings of the |xam with regard to hunting. Dia!kwain goes on to describe the habits of the hunting leopard.
Comments
1) p.5630v: the other name of the Orange River (Tki), given after sea water (which is cold), 2) p.5638v: includes the name of a family friend of Dia!kwain's mother who died after being injured by a leopard, 3) p.5639v: the |xam names of stones, 4) This story is found in Book V-21
Contributors
Date
21 December 1875 (started)
Categories
Plants and animals, Custom and daily life
Keywords
rock art (explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1) , painting (rock) , painting (explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1) , painting (picturing figures, lynx and ostrich) , painting (Dia!kwain's explanation of) , painting (and the habits of the hunting leopard) , leopard (hunting leopard) , leopard (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1) , leopard (habits of the hunting leopard) , hunting leopard (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1) , hunting leopard (its nature and habits) , hunting leopard ('seems to be ill') , hunting leopard (how it hunts) , hunting leopard (does not run fast) , hunting leopard ('is not a thing which chases things') , hunting leopard (hunts like a person) , hunting leopard (lies in wait) , hunting leopard (fears its back) , hunting leopard (stalks like an old man) , hunting leopard (methods of hunting and killing) , hunting leopard (people kill it with stones) , hunting (methods for catching and killing the hunting leopard) , hunting (methods of the hunting leopard) , hunting (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1) , Orange River (its water) , Orange River (and Stow's picture no. 1) , Orange River (its other name) , Orange River (and the animals that live therein that kill |xam) , animals (that live in the Orange River and kill the |xam there) , animals (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1) , names (of animals that live in the Orange River and kill the |xam there) , names (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1) , names (Orange River's other name) , ostrich (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1) , lynx (and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1)
Story Pages
5629-5642
