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