Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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fien

Language code: A71
Language name: 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)
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Reference: Swartz 1989:120; Tessmann 1934 :141
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