Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • uvano
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: personal potter marks
  • yumba"
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: clay, collected by the potter from a hole which she has dug near an erosion channel in the hillside a short distance below her home. Three different coloured clays are collected, a "black" clay, a "red" clay and a "white" clay.
  • kivivya"
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: to fire
  • ndaka"
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: mud, mire
  • nthima"
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: large pot
  • inzella;
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: plate
  • munaa;
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: small cooking pot for heating and storing children's and old people's food
  • kiteve"
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: large mouthed cooking pot, used in cooking for people at the building of a house because of its size
  • kitzingula
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: potsherd
  • kalio;
    Language code: E55 Language: kamba
    Translation: small piece of broken cooking pot