Standard types of Pottery:
Pots designed for primarily utilitarian and not aesthetic purposes:
These pots are given a special treatment as part of the firing process to create a rich, shiny black surface. While aestheticly pleasing they serve primariliy as utilitarian. (Frank 25, 29)
- Daga: generic term for all pottery, cooking pot
- Nadaga: sauce pot
- Tobidaga: larger than Nadaga, cooking pot
- Nègèdaga: iron pot, metal cooking pot
- Nyintin (Basidaga): steaming couscous, smoking pungent locust bean paste (sumbala)
- Faga: low, wide, footed bowl, unrestricted rim. washbasin
- Sèlidaga: prayer pot
- Singon: brazier with 3 prongs extending from the inside of the bowl; it supports a cooking pot
- Furuno (Furunè): copy of a metal brazier
- Jifinye (Finye): largest vessel currently produced, storage container for water
- (Frank 25)
Pots designed for public display:
these pots have more decorative details and are varied in form/design motifs (Frank 29)
- Jidaga: most important, water jars
- Dunden: small, restricted water pot with a short flared neck
- Sheminfaga: rare, chicken drinking pots
- Garigulèti: rare, complex and unusual, enclosed water pitcher
- Wusulanbèlè: used for incense burning
- (Frank 29, 33)
Frank, Barbara E. Mande Potters & Leatherworkers. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Print.