Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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Language code:
E51
Language name:
Gikuyu
Translation:
When thoroughly dry the clay is placed in an elliptical hole in the ground 24 in. by 19 in. lined with banana leaves; it is then moistened into a plastic mass, and it is at once ready for use. It is now known as n'daka
Noun class:
9-10
Tonality:
H
Reference:
Routledge & Routledge 1910:98
Proto
Protoform:
Protosense:
soil, earth