Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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Language code:
A71
Language name:
eton
Translation:
scraping stick, preferably made from ese, Musanga cecropioides, root, used to scrap the exterior coiled surface in upward and diagonally counterclockwise motion toward the body. According to one potter, the scraping stick could be made of any kin of material. Elouga (1983:42) reports the use of bamboo. The Bafia use palm wood, for scraping sticks (fien), a material one Eton found unsatisactory
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Swartz 1989:120
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