The caste of potters in Bhaktapur is known as 'Kuma Prajapat'; They live in the Taulachem and Talaco areas. Potting supplements their principal agricultural income and is carried out during lulls in farming activities. The Kathmandu Valley, once a
lake bed, contains a huge deposits of peat and phosphatic blue clay called Ko. Due to a shortage of kilns, the clay pots are fired without an oven. The pots are stacked in circles of decreasing diameter smothered under wheat stalk, which is then packed with a thin covering of clays so that an impromptu “oven” is created.
Kathmandu, Nepal.
lake bed, contains a huge deposits of peat and phosphatic blue clay called Ko. Due to a shortage of kilns, the clay pots are fired without an oven. The pots are stacked in circles of decreasing diameter smothered under wheat stalk, which is then packed with a thin covering of clays so that an impromptu “oven” is created.
Kathmandu, Nepal.
The caste of potters in Bhaktapur is known as 'Kuma Prajapat'; They live in the Taulachem and Talaco areas. Potting supplements their principal agricultural income and is carried out during lulls in farming activities. The Kathmandu Valley, once a
lake bed, contains a huge deposits of peat and phosphatic blue clay called Ko. Due to a shortage of kilns, the clay pots are fired without an oven. The pots are stacked in circles of decreasing diameter smothered under wheat stalk, which is then packed with a thin covering of clays so that an impromptu “oven” is created.
Kathmandu, Nepal.
lake bed, contains a huge deposits of peat and phosphatic blue clay called Ko. Due to a shortage of kilns, the clay pots are fired without an oven. The pots are stacked in circles of decreasing diameter smothered under wheat stalk, which is then packed with a thin covering of clays so that an impromptu “oven” is created.
Kathmandu, Nepal.
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