Lighting up the fire to fire pottery in Kon Tơ Xing village

To light up the fire, Y Gah first light up a scrape of wood taken out of a branch that they keep in the kitchen. It is a branch of a type of pine with a lot of essential oil, called hơng. It burns well and slowly and is always used to light up the kitchen fire. She puts the lit scrape of pine under the firewood platform with three to four other pieces of firewood disposed in star. At the end of the video, Y Gah uses an axe to chop firewood into small pieces that she will dispose close to the lit pine wood, to help the fire..