Language: |
Gǀui |
Species: |
Pedetes capensis |
Categories: | - ǀχáa-ǀoa
- small game animals, “small meat”
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Usage: | - food & drinks
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Related_lexemes: | ɡǂà̰n̄ “a hooked rod used for hunting springhares”; ŋǀūbī “water container made of the springhare’s bladder (used in the past), (a herb (ɡǀṵ́ı́) is put in because the water gets malodorous)”; ǂχúnù “the third stick of the sprinhare hunting rod (ɡǂà̰n̄)” |
Ethnobiological_notes: | hunted; one of the major inhabitants of hard terrain in the Kalahari, preferred prey of hunters; food taboo for girls around menarche and parents of newborn babies |
References: | Nakagawa 2013: 69; Tanaka and Sugawara 2010: 117 |