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Story: Baboons speak Bushman, and have wives

Title

Baboons speak Bushman, and have wives

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

Baboons are said to speak the Bushman language and to possess wives. Their use of Ss’ó|õä, which informs them of matters otherwise unknown to them. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-24. 5924-5926, 5923 rev.-5925 rev.). The sticks of ss'o |a tell the baboons things they do not know, such as things about people.

Comments

1) p.5923v: Dia!kwain heard this from his father (Xaa-ttin) and his grandfather, 2) See also Baboons try to shoot people – means of preventing it and Baboons know our names and Baboon's ss'o |a and hair used as charms against illness, 3) This story is found in Book V-24

Contributors

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Date

1 February 1876

Categories

Custom and daily life, Plants and animals

Keywords

baboons (speak Bushman, and have wives) , baboons (their nature and habits) , baboons (speak |xam) , baboons (use Ssho |oa) , baboons (and sticks of Ssho |oa) , baboons (Ssho |oa tells them things) , baboons (understand people) , baboons (talk to people) , baboons (sound like people) , baboons (know things) , baboons (have wives) , Ssho |oa (ss'o |a) , Ssho |oa (baboons use) , Ssho |oa (tells baboons things) , Ssho |oa (baboons have sticks of) , Ssho |oa (and the nature and habits of baboons) , speech (of baboons) , speech (baboons speak Bushman, and have wives) , wives (baboons speak Bushman, and have) , plant (Ssho |oa) , plant (Ssho |oa tells baboons things) , language (understood and spoken by baboons) , language (baboons speak Bushman, and have wives)

Story Pages

5924-5926, 5923v-5925v

Page Images

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