Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • mutsangiro"
    Language: gisu Translation: traditional wood hoe used until recently for digging clay
  • ingonyero"
    Language: gisu Translation: pestle used to pound small lumps of clay on a flat stone
  • kutsunga
    Language: gisu Translation: to pound the clay
  • kukunya
    Language: gisu Translation: to beat, to knock the clay
  • shikosi"
    Language: gisu Translation: neck of the pot
  • indyabusima"
    Language: gisu Translation: smoothing tool (used for smoothening the interior)
  • murono/mirono"
    Language: gisu Translation: rolls of clay (of average length of forty centimetres)
  • lumoshelo"
    Language: gisu Translation: the entire decoration of the pot (either using one or all of the methods)
  • kakhotsilya/bukhotsilya"
    Language: gisu Translation: roulettes that are made from banana fibres and banana leaf stalks
  • bubwika"
    Language: gisu Translation: horns; moulded pellets which serve as concluding decoration on raw pots
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