Mbusi
Mbusi is a wooden kitchen utensil used on the Swahili coast to grate coconuts . The name supposedly comes from Mbuzi (Swahili for "goat"), as the stool with its rasp thorn is said to resemble it.
shape
As a rule, the mbusi is carved from just one piece of wood. A serrated metal tip is placed on the rasp mandrel. The seat is often decorated with notches . The shape is said to be a replica of the Koran stands that came to the coast with the Arabs as early as the 8th century. Like the Koran stand, the Mbusi can be folded up to save space.
application
Sitting sideways or with your legs apart (like on a stool) on the Mbusi, the coconut pulp is grated into a bowl, for example.
swell
- ↑ http://www.hschumacher.de/html/eingeborenbevolkerung.html From: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Vol. I; Section B, Paragraph e)
- ↑ http://www.hschumacher.de/html/eingeborenbevolkerung.html From: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Vol. I; Section B, Paragraph e)