Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • ibon"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: a mussel shell scraper, trimmed longitudinally providing a long even edge and used to periodically scrape the coiling (before the actual manufacturing)
  • mene
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: pottery vessel construction
  • anun"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: vessel mouth
  • iduk
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: metal starting plate or bowl in which the coiled piece is put after the coiling process is started. It has been covered with ubuli (family Marantacae) leaves. The bottom of the plate is often broken or corroded out. Befor metal plates were available a basket was used for this purpose.
  • m'eb"
    Language code: A71 Language: 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
  • fien"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: scraping stick made palm wood used by Bafia potters to scrap the exterior coiled surface in upward and diagonally counterclockwise motion toward the body (bafia or eton word?) (also used to incise lines as decoration)
  • ndi"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: 'rib', a large rigid fruit from the entada abyssinica vine, used to scrape and smooth the interior vessel surface
  • vel"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: vessel body
  • me"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: interior rim area (of pot)
  • ketete"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: calabash disk used by Bafia potters as a rib (to smooth the exterior) (>Bafia noun?)
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