Word: indaba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the airmen vanished, the Bushmen were giraffe-hunting in the closed season (September to February). After they had killed a giraffe, they met two white men, camped with them, gave them some of the giraffe meat. When the strangers slept, the Bushmen held an indaba (discussion). Would not the white men disclose the killing of the giraffe? "Kill them," advised Twaitwai. Tammai and Kiree did. All night, they burned the bodies. Next morning, they took away the white men's bones and clothes as muti (magic medicine) for witchcraft. A torn khaki tunic, dropped by the wayside...