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Wilhelm Bleek
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ǀaǃkunta
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ǂkasin
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ǃnanni
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Da
Jemima Bleek
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curations
The tracks of Mmu mmu !kō: digitising the Bleek and Lloyd archive
Curated by Pippa Skotnes
The slips in the shoeboxes: the early collections of Bleek and Lloyd towards a dictionary for ǀxam
Curated by Menán du Plessis
The hunting ground’s doings: descriptions of the landscape in Lucy Lloyd’s ǀxam narratives
Curated by Eustacia Riley
Flywhisks
Curated by José Manuel de Prada-Samper
Fragments
Colour terms: ǀkā̍ïnya becomes 'green'
ǀhanǂkass’o draws a pair of wild dogs
Crocodiles eat the children
The South African coat of arms
Venus is illuminated by the sun
Xāä-ttin’s rock engravings
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The terminology that is used to speak of hunter-gatherer, or former hunter-gatherer communities is widely contested. The use of terms in this archive reflects ideas of its time, and varies across the 100 years of its production. Some of the terms used in the documents presented here, as well as some of the ideas expressed, may be racist or in other ways offensive. We do not endorse or support these views.
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