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Story: ≠nerru and her husband
Title
≠nerru and her husband
Collection
Summary
A young man of the Early Race marries ≠nerru (also a person of the Early Race). They are out collecting 'Bushman rice' and fill their bag, so the husband asks |nerru to use her kaross. She does not want to and he snatches it away from her. ≠nerru's bowels come pouring down. She replaces her bowels and returns to her mother's house. Her husband comes along looking for his wife, but ≠nerru's mother is angry with him for his lack of understanding.
Comments
1) See also Description of the ≠nerru, 2) p.8506v: |han≠kass'o heard this from his mother (|xabbi-an), 3) p.8510v: the |xam term for a kaross made of only one animal skin, 4) p.8511v: the words are spoken by ≠nerru in this instance, but many of the stories of the Early Race involve singing, 5) p.8523v: the people who spoke to |han≠kass'o's mother (and made her 'understand'), 6) This story is found in Book VIII-28
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
13 June 1879 (started)
Categories
Keywords
Early Race (when ≠nerru and her husband were people) , Early Race (≠nerru was formerly a person of the) , bird (the ≠nerru) , bird (≠nerru and her husband) , ≠nerru (and her husband) , ≠nerru (her husband does not act nicely) , ≠nerru (speaks and sings) , ≠nerru (her houses are numerous) , ≠nerru (does not put dusty 'Bushman rice' on her back-kaross) , ≠nerru (collects 'Bushman rice' with her husband) , ≠nerru (her husband does not understand her and injures her) , ≠nerru (the way her people do things at their place) , ≠nerru (her bowels are on her little kaross) , ≠nerru (her husband causes her bowels to fall out) , ≠nerru (returns to her mother's house) , husband (of ≠nerru) , husband (his own people) , husband (husbands who 'marry into our people as if they understood') , husband ('husbands do mad things') , husband (who does not act nicely) , husband (is a man of the Early Race) , husband (who did not understand his wife, ≠nerru, and injures her) , Bushman rice (collected by ≠nerru and her husband) , Bushman rice (dusty) , Bushman rice (on ≠nerru's little back-kaross) , Bushman rice (and the use of the springbok-skin sack) , kaross (≠nerru's little) , kaross (made of one skin) , kaross (called a !kou'ssi) , kaross (mother's little new) , kaross (tied on with its four straps, or legs) , kaross (used to bind up ≠nerru) , kaross (≠nerru's bowels are on her little back-) , kaross (≠nerru does not put dusty 'Bushman rice' on hers) , bowels (≠nerru's are on her little back-kaross) , bowels (≠nerru and her husband) , marriage (and different kinds of husbands) , marriage (and husbands who do not understand their wives) , marriage (and husbands who 'marry into our people as if they understood') , marriage ('husbands do mad things') , marriage (a husband who does not act nicely) , marriage (≠nerru and her husband) , name (a kaross made of one skin is called a !kou'ssi) , name (a bird called the ≠nerru)
Story Pages
8507-8525
