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Story: The ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting
Title
The ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting
Collection
Summary
The ||kerri bird eats locusts and is thus called the locust-bird. They drive the locusts into the bushes, where the people collect them and roast them in a fire. The people thirst after collecting locusts and need water. The rain then breaks and the people go and hunt for springbok.
Comments
1) p.6858 opp: |xam names for a poison, the ||kerri bird and a spider, 2) p.6858v: the wind that blows from the east and the west, 3) p.6859v: a |xam name for a young ostrich, 4) p.6863v: the !kwa bush, 5) pp.6869v-6870v: a 'food's thing', 6) p.6873v: a note stating that the opposite page (p.6874) was read to various dignitaries on 2 August 1880, 7) p.6877v: what the people say when springbok pass through the rain, 8) This story is found in Book VIII-10
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
17 May 1878 (started)
Categories
The Rain and Rain's water, Custom and daily life, Plants and animals
Keywords
bird (the ||kerri, which eats locusts; and locust-hunting) , bird (the locust bird) , ||kerri (or locust bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting) , ||kerri (its diet) , ||kerri (its actions and habits of) , ||kerri (drives locusts) , ||kerri (what the people say to) , locust (the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting) , locust (and times of day) , locust (settles in bushes) , locust ('locust-thirst') , locust (what it tastes like) , locust (the collecting of) , locust (the eating of) , locust (ways of cooking and eating) , locust (people eat) , hunting (springbok after it rains) , hunting (the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting) , bush (the name of) , bush (settled on by locusts) , bush (the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting) , name (of the bush settled on by locusts) , name (the locust bird is called ||kerri) , locust bird (the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting) , food (driving, collecting, hunting and eating locusts) , food (the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting) , address (what the people say to the ||kerri or locust bird) , address (the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting)
Story Pages
6858-6878
