Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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Language code:
S15 S51 S53 S61
Language name:
ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
Translation:
a water pot made to represent a gourd an (in some cases) a large portugese wine-bottle called a garrafão/ This shikutso is of Ndau origin. Pots resembling gourds are made with the hand, as far as the neck, then, when the hand can no longer be inserted, a stick is twisted round inside the neck.
Noun class:
7-8
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Reference:
Earthy 1933:54
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