Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • fere"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: pitch added into the interior of waterbottles after heating them in order ot make them watter-proof (Bafia)
  • itok/metok"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: spoons (made in clay), they have a hole in the top portion of the handle for hanging. Handles are decorated, the bowls usually not (any pot with medicine in it is called itok)
  • mbe"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: vessels (jars and bowls)
  • moN"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: storage jar
  • kul
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: 'big house' water and wine storage bottle (< anglais 'cool water')
  • lepuk"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: handled drinking cup
  • ela"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: goblets
  • nkak"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: large, often non-portable legless urns used for storing water or boiling peanut cake fo r ceremonies and parties. It has a spherical-shape body, sometimes with slightly pointed base, and a wide mouth with a straight to everted neck
  • nyane"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: basic large portable cooking and food pot. Before the introduction of metal it was used for cooking and preparing medicine. It is now primarily used for preparing bathing medicines and heating zezan, Ricinodendron heudelottei, a 'dirty' fruit, so that its hull can be opened. It is referred to as 'the mother of pots'
  • ntson"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: smaller cooking and food pot. Before metal was used to cook sauces and prepare medicine.
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