She was seated in the sun, and finished four vessels in one afternoon.

Then, assisted by her husband, she began to even them on the outside with a small, smooth, oblong piece of a gourd.

The vessels were then put into the house in order that they might not dry too quickly.

After an interval of fifteen minutes, during which she nursed her infant, which had been bothering her all the while, she began work again.

First, with the edge of a sharpened stick she removed all irregularities on the outside and on the brim, and then with a stone she polished the vessel.