Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • luwiende
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: small, wide-mouthed pot about 8 inches in diameter, serrated inside; it is used for crushing tobacco for snuff. This type of pot is often known by the Sesutho word tshisilo
  • sambelo"
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: large, shallow wide-mouthed bowl, decorated by a line pattern round the circumference indside and out; it is a man's wash bassin
  • vh&umba"
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: mould,shape, form esp. clay, when making pottery; (fig.) substitute, appoint implying rightfullness that is made, not natural)
  • libundi"
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: a clay dug up from a deposit on a nearby mountain and sold in the location. It gives a red colour. The raw material was dissolved in a little water and applied as a paint. The coloured area was then burnished.
  • phomo"
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: graphite
  • ndongwana"
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: small bowls with rounded or projecting bases. Height about 8 cm. Decorated with colour and graphic design.
  • tshingo"
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: deep bowls with tickened rims and rounded bases. Height 13-20 cm. Simple graphic design. Small size, for cooking meat vegetables or small amounts of porridge; for keeping milk to turn sour
  • dzhomela"
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: small spherical pots with thickened rims and rounded bases. Height about 12 cm. For drinking / Bag-shaped, sub-carinated pot with everted neck formed with well-defined point of inflection, rounded rim and rounded base. Height about 15 cm. Decorated with colour and design. For drinking beer.
  • g3amb3a/makamba"
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: any pot with wide opening, whether actually so made or only broken down to this shape afterwards
  • mb“i3a;
    Language code: S21 Language: venda
    Translation: pipe bowl carved from soapstone, for hemp-smoking
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