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Story: Porcupine hunting
Title
Porcupine hunting
Collection
Summary
An account of the hunting of porcupine and the practices that ensure its success (such as the treatment of their bones). The hunter is 'worked on' by the women before he goes to seek porcupine. The porcupine goes about only at night and remains inside its hole when the place is bright.
Comments
1) p.7375v: |han≠kass'o experienced these practices himself, 2) p.7377v: an explanation of the term 'decayed arm', 3) p.7379v: notes on trees in Bushmanland (including the Krieboom), 4) p.7381v: an explanation of the |xam term kua kua ssi-kuiten, which is applied to the porcupine (and the |gipp, or Proteles), 5) p.7386v: an explanation of the term 'it becomes white', 6) p.7388v: (5 September 1878) on rainfall and the abundance of food ('laying down plenty'), 7) p.7390v: the |xam name for the openings in the porcupine's tail that make a rattling sound, 8) p.7391v: (4 September 1878) the behaviour of the 'summer's porcupine', 9) See also The little porcupine, 10) This story is found in Book VIII-16
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
31 August (started) – 4 September (finished on or about) 1878
Categories
Keywords
hunting (of porcupine) , hunting (observances) , hunting (and kua kua ssi-kuiten, or things that people do not perceive) , hunting (methods at night) , hunting (women 'work nicely' on the hunter) , hunting (rituals performed with the hunter) , hunting (at night) , hunting (unsuccessful and successful) , hunting (breaking the porcupine's bones causes it to remain in its home) , hunting (and stopping up the entrances to the porcupine's hole) , hunting (and how children treat the porcupine's bones) , hunting (waiting and listening for the porcupine to return) , hunting (and the treatment and placement of bones) , porcupine (hunting) , porcupine ('summer's porcupines') , porcupine (the habits of the female) , porcupine (its faculties) , porcupine (the people fear it) , porcupine (its spoor) , porcupine (and times of day) , porcupine ('it black stands') , porcupine (it 'becomes white' and vanishes) , porcupine (the sounds it makes) , porcupine (its tail openings which rattle are called |kerriten) , porcupine (its actions at night) , porcupine (and the seasons) , porcupine (the actions it performs with its quills) , porcupine (ways of ensuring it comes out of and returns to its hole) , porcupine (its leg-bones are not broken) , porcupine (tactics in hunting) , porcupine (the treatment of its bones) , porcupine (that remains inside its hole) , porcupine (stopping up the entrances to its hole) , porcupine (is a kua kua ssi-kuiten, or thing that people do not perceive) , bones (and success in hunting porcupine) , bones (respecting) , bones (children must not play with) , bones (the treatment of) , bones (and hunting porcupine) , bones (breaking the porcupine's) , bones (and the bone heap) , children (must not play with the porcupine's bones) , children (break the porcupine's leg-bones) , children (and porcupine hunting) , kua kua ssi-kuiten (or things that people do not perceive) , kua kua ssi-kuiten (or things that do not come out) , kua kua ssi-kuiten (the Proteles and the porcupine are) , kua kua ssi-kuiten (and porcupine hunting) , Proteles (or |gipp) , Proteles (or aardwolf) , Proteles (and the porcupine are kua kua ssi-kuiten, or things that people do not perceive) , Proteles (and porcupine hunting) , night (hunting porcupine at) , night (when hunters 'listen, seeking') , night ('night-darkness' when the moon doesn't shine) , night ('in the middle of the night's back') , night (when the porcupine goes out during winter) , winter (and the porcupine's habits and actions) , winter (when the porcupine remains inside its hole) , winter (and porcupine hunting) , summer ('summer's porcupines') , summer (and the porcupine's habits and actions) , summer (when the porcupine comes out 'while the evening's sky is yet red') , summer (and porcupine hunting) , aardwolf (Proteles) , aardwolf (|gipp) , aardwolf (and the porcupine are kua kua ssi-kuiten, or things that people do not perceive) , aardwolf (and porcupine hunting) , name (things which are not perceived are called kua kua ssi-kuiten) , name (others for the Proteles) , name (the porcupine's tail openings is called |kerriten) , teaching (of observances relating to porcupine hunting) , teaching (children must not play with the porcupine's bones) , education (about observances relating to porcupine hunting) , education (children must not play with the porcupine's bones)
Story Pages
7376-7393
