Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • ndZomeya
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: pot for drinking beer, said to "follow" the design of a woman's hand-basket.
  • Sikalaviso"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: a pot with a larger mouth also used as a goblet
  • galangu"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: a large pot used in distilling gin (sopé). Said to be of Thonga origin (Inhambane)
  • Sikutso"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: 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.
  • Sirengele/Òirengele"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: potsherd
  • sira/tisira"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: small fragments of old potsherds
  • Sivumba"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: clay bowl of the pipes for smoking hemp
  • mbange"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: hemp, dagga!
  • wumba"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: clay
  • Sihiso/Òihiso"
    Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
    Translation: large open bowl, used as a kind of mortar for mashing (the pestle being of wood used in a rotary manner while the women sit on the ground. The sihiso have a secondary use when they have a hole in them caused by the shimusana or little pestle. Three together inverted make a kind of stove, on which a pot may rest for cooking purposes, the fire being lighted in the space between. They then cease to be sihiso and are maseku.
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