Not specifically documented under a standardized Diola-language term in available sources
The hand-building and firing of functional clay pottery by Diola women of the Casamance region in southern Senegal, documented in detailed academic ethnographic fieldwork (1964-1966) as varying in style between the recently Islamized Fogny Diola north of the Casamance River and the more traditional, non-Islamized Kasa Diola to the south. Diola society is subsistence-based, and pottery — alongside other utilitarian crafts — plays a significant functional economic role; archaeological trash middens filled with pottery sherds mark the sites of ancient Diola villages, evidencing the craft's deep historical continuity. Production has documented a notable pattern of craft consolidation: in the Kasa region, the village of Ejungun functions as the sole pottery-manufacturing center for a very large surrounding area, with women in other villages having largely stopped making their own pots, instead purchasing Ejungun-made vessels using surplus rice as payment — a cooperative economic arrangement benefiting both the specialized Ejungun potters (situated too near a town for easy rice cultivation) and the surrounding rice-farming villages.
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The hand-weaving of ceremonial loincloth cloth by men of the Manjak (also Mandjak, Manjaco, Njaago) ethnic group, whose communities span Guinea-Bissau (the group's homeland), Casamance in Senegal, Gambia, and Cape Verde.
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