Preforming the bottom of a cooking pot in Kon Tơ Xing village : scraping the outside 4/5

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 finish to shape the bottom, Y Gah takes the pot upside down on her knees and scrapes the bottom one last time using a ring (of around 5cm in diameter) made of a thin slice of bamboo , called kong. With this last step, she makes sure that the bottom of the pot is regular and flat.