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A woman is supposed not to touch a man’s hunting gear at any time, because this would lessen his power to hunt. But I have often seen women touch assegais and quivers. Indeed it has sometimes been urgently necessary to do so when the children got hold of them, as, for instance, when the three-year-old Gao, agile as a flea, took after us with his father’s assegai, infuriated with us for some sudden notion of his own.
- Source: Marshall, Lorna. “Marriage among !Kung Bushmen.” Africa -- Vol. 29, pp. 335-364, 1959.
- Culture: San
- Location: Africa