Preforming on leather hard clay and smoothing the bottom of a cooking pot (dlah pay)

After pushing out the bottom and scraping the outside with her fingers, Yo Khoanh smooths the outside of the pot with water and a bamboo stick. With this action, she scrapes out clay on some places and spread it in other places, to result in a smoothed surface. On the background, Mai Kim is polishing the rim of a steaming pot