Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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Language: eton Translation: pole with pointed tip (which is pounded into overlying sand to remove overburden from the clay pit) -
Language: eton Translation: backed hoe (used to remove in chunks the exposed clay which is blue in color) -
Language: eton Translation: metal knife (used to cut roots from the clay pit) -
Language: eton Translation: carving plate on which clay is placed in a pile, which is then placed on the head to transport it back to the village house -
Language: eton Translation: wooden tree bark taken from a recently burnt tree on which the mined clay is placed in the potter's house -
Language: eton Translation: a communal trough mortar, in which clay is pounded with a stick (ingen), which is a doweled furniture leg. The mortar s a discarded tom-tom drum log manufactured from an ebai tree. -
Language: eton Translation: petrified tree slabs, which are regarded as heirlooms, used by Bafia potters to place mined clay on -
Language: eton Translation: coils made by pulling off pieces from the lump with the right hand and placing them on a rectangular smooth-surfaced wooden board (lembale viok), similar to a modern breadboard in appearance. The clay is rolled in a reciprocal motion on the board with the right hand. Potters state that one can use both hands. -
Language: eton Translation: rectangular smooth-surfaced wooden board similar to a modern breadboard in appearance, on which clay coils are rolled -
Language: eton Translation: macabo cocoyam (Xanthrosoma sagittifolium) leaf from which the central spine has been pulled off by the teeth, used to lay the coils parallel in a pile