Post firing pots in Buôn Trấp village 1/3 : Splashing bark infused water on the pots

When the pots start to glow red, they are taken out of the fire. Before they have the time to cool down, H’Lân Êban takes a branch of banana tree (called mtai) that she had tapered and uses it to splash bark infused water on the pots. She makes sure that every part of the pot is splashed with water. This post-firing process gives the pot its black colour. The bark infused water consists of the bark from two different trees (called knum (Rade) or krum (Bih) (probably Barringtonia acutangula) and a tree called ana san (Bih) (maybe Saraca asoca)) that are boiled in water for 20minuts. The water then turns a reddish colour.