Making pot in Yang Tao village : Smoothing the roasting pan (suông war ba)

Yo Khoanh smooths out the walls of the ‘suông war ba’ with water and a bamboo stick called ‘ne pôi dlah’, where ‘ne’ is the stick, ‘pôi’ the action of drawing the walls from the outside and ‘dlah’ the generic term for pottery. Then, she perfects the shape of the rim using water and a piece of cloth called ‘at dlah’. During the whole process, the pot stays fixed on its support and the potters walk around the support. This action of turning around is called ‘uôt’ in Mnong. In the background, LTS talks with Mai Khanh about when potters usually go take the clay. Mai Khanh explains that because in the morning (around 9-10), they sometime have tourists coming, they usually go get the clay in the early morning.