Notebooks
Story: Mat sieves
Title
Mat sieves
Collection
Summary
Mat sieves said to be generally made by the Bushmen, but skin sieves by the Grass Bushmen and the Koranna-Hottentots. In English, after Díä!kwãin (L V.-25. VI note). Sieves supposed also to be used by the early race. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.-27. 8391 and 8392). |han≠kass'o describes some sieves (!yuiten) that he believes belonged to the Early Race of Bushmen. These sieves were used to sift !haken after digging it out.
Comments
1) See also a note by Dia!kwain in The woman who was killed by the baboons (p.5993opp) for a description of sieves made from matting (used by 'real Bushmen') and sieves made from skins used by Korannas and 'Grass Bushmen', 2) This story is found in Book VIII-27
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
22 April 1879
Categories
History (Early Race), Custom and daily life, Artefact and dress
Keywords
sieve (a thing called !yuiten belonging to the Early Race of Bushmen) , sieve (used for sifting !haken) , Early Race (their sieves were called !yuiten) , Early Race (used sieves for sifting !haken) , Early Race (dig for !haken and 'Bushman rice') , food (eaten by the Early Race) , food (the eating and sifting of !haken and 'Bushman rice' by the |xam) , food (digging for !haken and 'Bushman rice') , names (of foods eaten by the Early Race of Bushmen) , names (digging for !haken and 'Bushman rice') , names (sieves or !yuiten) , digging (for !haken and 'Bushman rice') , digging (and sieves used by the Early Race) , !haken (and 'Bushman rice' sieved by people of the Early Race in things called !yuiten) , Bushman rice (and !haken sieved by people of the Early Race in things called !yuiten)
Story Pages
8391-8392
