-: Inavodo
Ingungi
Kidinyiru
Kisia
Kihinda
-: 🤔🤔🤔,kidinyiru,kisia waah!🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂
-: Thank you Professor for elaborating on this. In the measurement of gorogoro of nowadays Inavodo,ingungi,kidinyiru, kisia and kihinda each was equivalent to how many gorogoros. Please advise more on these
-: Remember the sizes are approximations. Secondly, the gorogoro is a recent measure. However, if 40 gorogoro = 1gunia, then probably 5 gorogoro = 1 debe and 8 debes = 1 gunia.
-: Yeah! Ikidinyiru...that's the one I'd forgotten. My dad used to use that word . I can't actually remember hearing anyone else use it.
-: But prof,used have the perception that 7gogoros= l debe
-: Kulugina not mulugina (lugina a traditional grinding stone to grind on this stone one should have isio)
By the way what's engogoto?
-: Ekehe or egehe
Inavodo
Inguungi & ikisya or igisya
Ikihiinda
ekedeera
-: Let us put uses for more familiarisation.
*Inavodo*
- Smallest of the baskets
- used for measuring small quantities of solids. Like seeds to be planted.
- Used for storage of minutes e.g needles
- measuring weights in volume below a kilogram
*Ingungi*
- larger in size than inavodo.
- used in carrying fewer items - easy for the young.
- used in storage of solids like flour and grains.
- used in measuring quantities in minimum measures like in trading.
- used for measuring weights of about 10 kilos.
*Kidinyiru*
- larger in size than ingungi.
- (can we add please?)
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*Kisia*
- larger than kidinyiru in size
- used for measuring volume weights of about 20 kilograms.
- used for carrying gifts to relatives during important functions as dowry payment and marking anniversaries.
- used for storage of solids.
*Kihinda*
- larger than kisia
- can hold volume weights of about 3-4 Visia
- used mainly for ferrying voluminous but lighter solids like tea, masagati.
*Kedera*
- larger than Kihinda in size
- it is a stationary granary
- can accommodate volume of about 2-4 vihinda.
*Marksmanship*
-/ they are made out of hard matured nappier grass (scientific name?)
-/ cut and worked on while still wet for easy bending, knotting* commences at apex base with columns to determine size and strength. Circular counter zig zag filling from the base follows to end at a conical top with rows and columns rounded together to form a solid ending and resistant to wear on handling.
-/ finished, the baskets are dried for use/marketing.
*Maintenance and usage*
- smearing with wet cow dung fills in the spaces to disallow solids as flour from seeping away. Cowdung also has a calming effect, maintains the temperature of stored grains and prevents crawling insects beneath*
- Baskets are required to be raised when filled, hung when empty. If not on a peg then they can be placed on a flat base upside down. On floor they can quickly attract moisture which would allow quick decay of the organic material.
- Lowering is by first resting it on the knee to allow base landing than side-base lands which quickly wears with continual abuse.
- Picking it is by holding on its diameter while full. Unbalanced lifting if full distorts the circumference of the opening and weakens the sides.
- Balance on the head or with hands while carrying. Shoulder carrying while filled weakens it.
*Longevity*
A basket if well used can last many years, minimum of 5.
- Let us build on the article.....filling in the gaps.
-: You forgot ekehe, it can be used to measure small quantities of grains and also as a serving dish for ugali, cooked mabwoni or imyogo etc, it is thicker and stronger than inavodo and sealed such that something in liquid form cannot sip thru
-: Something in liquid? Porridge?
-: I think there was a send as the unit of measure. We therefore need to know how many debes filled a kihinda etc. A fever was metallic.
-: I'd never heard of kidinyiru & ekehe. I'm back to school. This is the beauty of this group.
-: Some sort of a plate? Near kibakuri? 😊. Egehe. Let us know more.
Then there is that which is more curved than /roderu but not complete to be ingungi/Kihinda.
- called?
-: It can be a utensil or a basket depending on what you want
-: A debe was metallic🖕🏼
-: Could this kehe be what used be called ekederu?
-: Most likely because I heard there was ekederu where wimbi ugali was served. Then the utensil for boga made from mud, if I haven't forgotten was called lubago.
I hope that's the word.
-: What about lidasa
-: You guys need lots of lessons in kimaragoli, 😎😎😎
-: My guku used ikidinyiru too, the one you measure njugu karanga in. But Nowdays in Mbale the njugu vendors measure 50bob njugus in a small glass equivalent or a sliced off bottom jam can🤪🤪🤪🤪 eeeh mambo haya
-: I think am wrong here, guyz,, nimechanganyikiwa🙈🙈
-: Nice to know. Kidinyiru is between inavodo and ingungi? Something btn murungi and mugorogoro?
-: Pls Hon Lunga'fa..pls pose photos of those baskets...if you come across, some members don't know about them....
-: I surely should. To keep learning.
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