Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • gorago"
    Language: eton Translation: waterborn pebble used by Bafia to smooth the interior (>Bafia noun?)
  • nkon"
    Language: eton Translation: lip (of a pot)
  • ibas-i
    Language: eton Translation: a trimmed pangolin scale used to cut the edge of the projected out lip (sometimes a trimmed doubled safety razor blade (lam, from French lame?) is used)
  • ikon"
    Language: eton Translation: folded and rectangularly trimmed banana (Musa sp.) leaf used to smooth the cut lip surface after it has been sprinkled with water
  • iy&enle"
    Language: eton Translation: frying and drinking bowl and plate
  • utul"
    Language: eton Translation: shoulder of the pot
  • kin"
    Language: eton Translation: constricted neck of calabash bottle
  • bigde"
    Language: eton Translation: roulette carved from tomo, Carpolobia alba, woord with matel knives. (the operation of rouletting is done by rolling the cylinder in a reciprocal action over the clay surface with tip of the forefinger of the right hand. The vessel is rotated in a clockwise direction and the direction of design placement is counterclockwise and away from the body
  • nts`on"
    Language: eton Translation: beaked roulette decoration pattern
  • ak&ol
    Language: eton Translation: bicycle tire roulette decoration pattern
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