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Story: Mode of eating porcupine

Title

Mode of eating porcupine

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

Different customs concerning the eating of the Porcupine. By /han≠kass’o (L VII.-6. 6590 rev.-6594 rev.). The people who live where the sun sets (the place where Dia!kwain and his people come from) roast and eat the porcupine on the hunting-ground, but |han≠kass'o's people take the porcupine home when there are no springbok.

Comments

1) This story is found in Book VIII-6

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

6 April 1878 (started)

Categories

Custom and daily life

Keywords

porcupine (mode of eating) , porcupine (soup made from) , porcupine (its tail is eaten by women) , porcupine (the parts that are eaten) , porcupine (where it is eaten) , porcupine (its backbone) , porcupine (the cutting of) , porcupine (the parts that men and women eat) , porcupine (the preparation and cooking of) , porcupine (eaten by |han≠kass'o's and Dia!kwain's people) , porcupine (eaten by different groups of |xam) , porcupine (and hunger) , porcupine (dividing) , porcupine (sharing) , food (mode of eating porcupine) , food (different types of) , food (parts of the porcupine eaten) , food (and hunger) , food (the gambro root) , food (the |kui root) , food (and !kerri berries) , food (eaten by men and women) , food (eaten in times of hunger) , food (eaten when there are no springbok) , food (dividing and sharing) , hunger (what is eaten in periods of) , hunger (food eaten when there are no springbok) , hunger (mode of eating porcupine) , names (of plants, foods eaten) , names (gambro roots) , names (|kui roots) , names (!kerri berries) , plants (names of roots and berries) , plants (edible) , plants (gambro roots) , plants (|kui roots) , plants (!kerri berries) , plants (eaten in times of hunger) , famine (what is eaten in periods of) , famine (food eaten when there are no springbok) , famine (mode of eating porcupine) , Dia!kwain (his people roast and eat the porcupine on the hunting-ground) , Dia!kwain (mode of eating porcupine) , |han≠kass'o (his people take the porcupine home when there are no springbok) , |han≠kass'o (mode of eating porcupine) , springbok (porcupine eaten when there are no) , springbok (food eaten in times of hunger) , springbok (mode of eating porcupine)

Story Pages

6590v-6594v

Page Images

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_081

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_081

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_081