Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (mpondo)Translation: beer pot / large barrel-shaped vessels with smooth, matt finish. Used for water./ beer pot about 3ft. high and 2ft. diameter -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (bomvana)Translation: deep and shallow straight-sided bowls with rounded rims and rounded bases, without neck. Mouth diameter between 22 and 25 cm. Decorated by notching rims. Shallow type probably for serving food and deep variety for serving and drinking beer/spherical and barrel-shaped and elongated bag-shaped pots. Height 20-25 cm. Undecorated and decorated. Used for drinking and serving beer. -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (bomvana)Translation: deep and shallow straight-sided bowls with rounded rims and rounded bases, without neck. Mouth diameter between 22 and 25 cm. Decorated by notching rims. Shallow type probably for serving food and deep variety for serving and drinking beer/spherical and barrel-shaped and elongated bag-shaped pots. Height 20-25 cm. Undecorated and decorated. Used for drinking and serving beer. -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (bomvana)Translation: large barrel-shaped, wide-mouthed incurved, and truncated oval-shaped pots with cut or rounded rims. Height 30-45 cm. No decoration. Matt finish. Neck. Bark cord bindings used to strenghten vessels if necessary. Used for storing water -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (mpondo)Translation: small pots of a variety of shapes, with cut or rounded rims and flattened or projecting bases. Height about 13-17 cm. Decorated with colour and graphic design. No neck. Used for drinking and serving beer. -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (mpondo)Translation: bag-shaped pot with short, straight everted neck formed with a well-defined point of inflection, cut rim and flattened base. Height about 22cm. Decorated with graphic design and colour. Used for small amounts of foodstuffs, such as grain used in beermaking, thin porridge, or light beer; for use by important people -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (mpondo)Translation: very large barrel-shaped pot with cut rims. Height 58-62 cm. Undecorated with exception of rim which may be notched. Bound with bark cord to strenghten. Used for fermenting and storing beer. Formely an earthen pot for cooking as distinguished form an iron one / a beer pot about 3 ft. high and 2 ft. diameter. -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (mpondo)Translation: large almost straight-sided pot with cut or rounded rim and slightly projecting base. Height 55cm. Undecorated. Used for fermenting and storing beer -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (mpondo)Translation: small pots of a variety of shapes, with cut or rounded rims and flattened or projecting bases. Height about 13-17 cm. Decorated with colour and graphic design. No neck. Used for drinking and serving beer. -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (mpondo)Translation: a flat dish for food (not now used) turned up at the edges