Preparing the cooking pot for preforming the bottom in Kon Tơ Xing village

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. The bottom will be formed by scraping both ouside and inside, pushing from the inside and scratching outside. Right before she starts scraping the outside of the pot, Y Gah marks the bottom, using a stick to make sure the bottom will be parrallel to the rim of the pot. She holds the stick with one end leveled with the rim and the other end marking the bottom and turns the pot.