Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: beer pot / the big beer-pot is between 2 and 3 feet in diameter; a large size can hold five gallons of beer. This type is only used for storing beer, and is kept in the special beer hut (Some chiefs also keep stores of beer in large holes sunk in the ground and lined with clay, which can contain many gallons). -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: a beer-pot of a size that is convenient for carrying; it is the type of pot in which beer is always served, and for that reason it is often decorated. -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: smaller than mvubelo and used for cooking porridge -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: smaller than mvubelo and slightly smaller than khali and used for cooking green foods -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: flat and saucer-shaped pot, measuring about a foot in diameter. It is used for serving the tshisevho, never for cooking -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: small, wide-mouthed pot about 8 inches in diameter, serrated inside; it is used for crushing tobacco for snuff. This type of pot is often known by the Sesutho word tshisilo -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: large, shallow wide-mouthed bowl, decorated by a line pattern round the circumference indside and out; it is a man's wash bassin -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: mould,shape, form esp. clay, when making pottery; (fig.) substitute, appoint implying rightfullness that is made, not natural) -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: a clay dug up from a deposit on a nearby mountain and sold in the location. It gives a red colour. The raw material was dissolved in a little water and applied as a paint. The coloured area was then burnished. -
Language code: S21 Language: vendaTranslation: graphite