Preforming on leather-hard clay phase 1 in Krăngọ village : shaping the bottom of a small pot (còn góh)

Ma Ly is polishing the rim and shoulder of the pot. Then, she sscrapes the outer part of the bottom with a ring tool made of bamboo to take off the square angle of the bottom of the pot. When she has taken out a bit of clay, she slightly pushes the bottom out from the inside, using her left hand as a support on the outside to prevent it from breaking. She pushes the centre to give the bottom a rounded shape. Then, she takes the paddle, dips it in water and begins to pat the walls of the pots. Her movement is slightly diagonal to the walls, pushing the clay down and smoothing the surface. She concentrates especially on the lower part of the walls to erase the traces of the previously flat body, and to create a smooth curve of the walls. When she is satisfied with it, she takes back the ring of bamboo (kơnur) and uses it to scrape the bottom surface to regularise it and fill the cracks that appeared while pushing from the inside. She sometimes spreads some clay that she scraped out to even out the surface. When she is satisfied with the shape and the surface has been regularised, the potter wets her hands and rubs them over the bottom of the pot to finish to smooth it out. The pot that she is making (còn góh) is traditionally used to drink water or wash the hair. During the whole process, BBN and CdF interview Ma Ly about the tools. The information from the interview are all summarised in the summary document for Krăngọ village .