Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: pot for drinking beer, said to "follow" the design of a woman's hand-basket. -
Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: a pot with a larger mouth also used as a goblet -
Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: a large pot used in distilling gin (sopé). Said to be of Thonga origin (Inhambane) -
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. -
Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: potsherd -
Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: small fragments of old potsherds -
Language: venda Translation: a beer-pot of a size that is convenient for carrying; it is the type of pot in which beer is always served, and for that reason it is often decorated. -
Language: venda Translation: smaller than mvubelo and slightly smaller than khali and used for cooking green foods -
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 -
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.