Preforming the bottom of a cooking pot in Kon Tơ Xing village : scraping the outside 3/5

The bottom of the pot has to be shaped after a drying time. It can be done only on a clay that is hard enough to be manipulated without losing its shape but still flexible enough to modify that shape. To preform the bottom, Y Gah sits in front of the house with the pot on her knees, the opening facing her left. She puts her left hand inside and in her right hand, she holds a ring (of around 5cm in diameter) made of a thin slice of bamboo , called kong. She uses it to scrape the sides of the bottom, taking out clay to round the edges.