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Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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soil; ashes; dust
to work clay
potter's tool
clay pot (generic)
jar; calabash
clay soil
cooking-pot
to mould pottery
press; squeeze; knead
pot sp.; jar; jug
pottery clay
potter
cooking-pot
bowl, plate
jug
place or thing for eating
jug
soil, clay, mud
plate, bowl
potsherd
cooking-pot
small cooking-pot
cooking-pot
frying pan
frying pan; roaster pan
grog
cup; holllow vessel
to make round and smooth
smoothing tool (stone)
press; knead; plaster
pottery clay
to plaster, to daub (walls & floor)
white clay; kaolin
cooking-pot
cooking-pot
jar; mud?
pot sp.
soil, earth
mud