Haixom

The Haixom, or Haiǁom, are the largest San people of Namibia, hunter-gatherers whose home for millennia was the Etosha pan and surrounding bush. In the nineteenth century they ranged from Ovamboland across Etosha to Grootfontein and Outjo, trading with neighbours. They kept trance healing dances and hunting magic, and speak the Haiǁom–ǂAakhoe dialect of the Khoekhoe continuum.