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Story: Notes on rock painting copy no. 9

Title

Notes on rock painting copy no. 9

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

Remarks concerning copies of Bushman Paintings, given by Colonel Durnfold to His Excellency Sir Bartle Frere. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-22. 7969–7972, 7974 and 7975, 7983-7993, 23. 7995-8004). |han≠kass'o describes a copy of rock painting No. 9, in which he thinks that the people depicted are 'Kafirs', or black people.

Comments

1) This story is found in Book VIII-23

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

20 November 1878

Categories

Custom and daily life, Relations with others

Keywords

rock art (no. 9 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg) , rock art (|han≠kass'o's explanation of) , painting (no. 9 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg) , painting (|han≠kass'o's explanation of) , painting (picturing black men, or 'Kafirs') , black people ('Kafirs') , black people (pictured in rock painting copy no. 9) , black people (have dogs) , black people (and the 'wind's dogs') , black people (carry things on their heads) , carrying things (in rock painting copy no. 9) , carrying things (methods of) , carrying things (the |xam do so on their bodies) , carrying things (black people do so on their heads) , carrying things (in nets) , carrying things (by men and women) , carrying things (and binding skins together by means of a thong) , dogs (belonging to black men) , dogs (which are called 'wind's dogs') , dogs (in rock painting copy no. 9) , wind (black people's dogs are called the 'wind's dogs') , wind (in rock painting copy no. 9)

Story Pages

7999-8004

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