CHANGES AND STRANGE SCENES 
clay, which they take out of the ground with a stone 
adze—a flat stone blade lashed to the shorter extremity 
of a forked stick, the longer extremity forming the 
handle. 
There is a distinct organisation of labour among 
the potters, the women being divided into ‘‘ makers” 
and “bakers.” Several ‘‘makers” work together in 
a group. They use no wheel, but seize a lump of 
clay with both hands, and make a hole large enough 
to get the right hand in, whereupon they gradually 
give the vessel its contour. After being roughly 
shaped, it is smoothed off with flat sticks or the palm 
of the hand. ‘The finished article of Hanuabada ware 
is in the form of a flattened sphere with a very wide 
mouth, and a neatly finished rim six or eight inches 
across. Farther to the east, along the coast, the 
pottery is highly decorated, but it is much more crude 
in form, and has no fine rim. The pots are dried in 
the sun for several days, and then they are turned 
over to the “‘ bakers,” whose fires are blazing in every 
street. ‘There are two methods of baking. One is to 
lay the pot on a heap of hot ashes; the other to build 
the fire right round it. ‘The vessel is watched through 
the whole process, and is continually turned on the 
fire with a little stick thrust into the mouth. 
When many hundreds of pots have been completed, 
the Hanuabada people begin to think about the dis- 
posal of their wares. Their great market is at Paruru, 
a long way up the coast. They barter their pottery 
for sago with the nations of that district, and it is 
very curious to note that this extensive trading organi- 
sation on the part of an utterly savage people has been 
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