The Bleek Collection BC 151 : notebooks.

Consists of over 12,000 pages of notebooks in which Bleek and Lloyd recorded the language and mythology of the /Xam, a now extinct hunter-gatherer society which formed part of the Southern Bushmen or San. Text consists of /Xam words or narrative written in a phonetic script developed by Bleek, with...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	University of Cape Town. Libraries. Manuscripts and Archives Department
Other Authors:	Bleek, W. H. I. (Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel), 1827-1875, Lloyd, Lucy, 1834-1914, Bleek, D. F. (Dorothea Frances), 1873-1948
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	Khoisan (Other) English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1871-1925.
Subjects:	San (African people) > Folklore. San (African people) > Languages. Oral tradition > Africa, Southern.
Online Access:	Memory of the World Register nomination form

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Summary:	Consists of over 12,000 pages of notebooks in which Bleek and Lloyd recorded the language and mythology of the /Xam, a now extinct hunter-gatherer society which formed part of the Southern Bushmen or San. Text consists of /Xam words or narrative written in a phonetic script developed by Bleek, with the English translation.
Item Description:	Microform.
Physical Description:	approximately 44 volumes : illustrations, maps
Related Items:	Forms part of: The Bleek Collection, BC 151.