Notebooks
Story: Notes on rock painting copy no. 3
Title
Notes on rock painting copy no. 3
Collection
Summary
|han≠kass'o describes a group of people who are fighting each other (as they appear in a copy of rock painting no. 3). A man on horseback has stabbed another. The people ask the other people for tobacco and fear the white men.
Comments
1) p.7974v: see !guerriten-dde, 2) p.7976v: the |xam name for a bush similar to one seen on the slopes of Devil's Peak in November 1878, 3) See also Notes on rock painting copy no. 2 (!nu'sa and other groups) and Notes on rock painting copy no. 5, no. 6. and no. 7, 4) This story is found in Book VIII-22
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
10 November 1878
Categories
History (personal), Relations with others, Custom and daily life
Keywords
rock art (notes on rock painting copy no. 3) , rock art (copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg) , painting (no. 3 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg) , painting (a copy of a rock painting) , painting (|han≠kass'o's explanation of no. 3) , painting (of |xam groups) , painting (of |xam who are fighting) , painting (of |xam who fear white men) , painting (of |xam who ask for tobacco) , painting (of |xam who seem foolish) , |xam (names of groups) , |xam (and |han≠kass'o's explanation of picture no. 3) , |xam (who are never seen again) , |xam (who are afraid and seem foolish) , |xam (who journey to a place where they no longer live) , |xam (who fear the white men) , |xam (who journey) , |xam (who ask for tobacco) , tobacco (|xam who ask for) , tobacco (and notes on rock painting copy no. 3) , white men (|xam who fear) , white men (and notes on rock painting copy no. 3) , names (of |xam groups) , names (notes on rock painting copy no. 3)
Story Pages
7974-7977
