Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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nyane

Language code: A71
Language name: 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'
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Reference: Swartz 1989:125
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