Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • m'eb"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: scraping stick, preferably made from ese, Musanga cecropioides, root, used to scrap the exterior coiled surface in upward and diagonally counterclockwise motion toward the body. According to one potter, the scraping stick could be made of any kin of material. Elouga (1983:42) reports the use of bamboo. The Bafia use palm wood, for scraping sticks (fien), a material one Eton found unsatisactory
  • fien"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: scraping stick made palm wood used by Bafia potters to scrap the exterior coiled surface in upward and diagonally counterclockwise motion toward the body (bafia or eton word?) (also used to incise lines as decoration)
  • ndi"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: 'rib', a large rigid fruit from the entada abyssinica vine, used to scrape and smooth the interior vessel surface
  • vel"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: vessel body
  • me"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: interior rim area (of pot)
  • ketete"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: calabash disk used by Bafia potters as a rib (to smooth the exterior) (>Bafia noun?)
  • gorago"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: waterborn pebble used by Bafia to smooth the interior (>Bafia noun?)
  • nkon"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: lip (of a pot)
  • ibas-i
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: a trimmed pangolin scale used to cut the edge of the projected out lip (sometimes a trimmed doubled safety razor blade (lam, from French lame?) is used)
  • ikon"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: folded and rectangularly trimmed banana (Musa sp.) leaf used to smooth the cut lip surface after it has been sprinkled with water
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