Clip 5 (of 13), Gakoigo Pottery Village coil building.

This is Margaret Wanjiro Gikonyo, one of the women potters of Gakoigo village. She is showing the final stage of finishing the top portion rim and incised decoration using a sgraffito tool made from a bit of plastic bucket. She then proceeds to prepare the base of a similar, pre-hardened section (prepared earlier) for the coiling of its round base.
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