turning the last one over to one or two little girls, from 4 to 6 years of age, who find great happiness in smearing the outer surface of the now cooling and dull-brown pot with resin held in bunches in the hands.  This outer glaze, applied by the young apprentices, who, in play, are learning an art of their future womanhood, is neither so thick nor so carefully laid as is the glaze of the rim and inner surface of the vessel.  When the glazing is completed the pot is still too hot to be borne in the hands; however, the glaze has become rigid and hard.

Analyses made at the Bureau of Government Laboratories, Manila, show that the clays used in the Samoki pots contain the following mineral: 

Analyses of Samoki pottery clays

Minerals. 
Brown pit clay
Blue surface clay

Per cent PER CENT

Silica 54.46 60.99

Oxide of aluminum 16.77 17.71

Ferric oxide of iron 11.14 9.53

Oxide of calcium 0.53 0.59

Loss by ignition 16.81 10.65

Oxide of magnesium
Trace
Trace

Oxide of potassium
Trace —­

Oxide of sodium —­
Trace

Carbon dioxide —­
Trace

The botanist of the Bureau of Government Laboratories[26] says in the report of his analysis of the resin used to glaze these pots: 

This gum is known as Almaciga (Sp.).  It is produced by some species of the dipterocarpus or shorea —­ which it is impossible to determine. ...  It should not be confounded with the other common almaciga from the trees of the genus Agathis.

The Government analyst[27] who analyzed the clays and examined the finished and glazed pots says of the Samoki pot that about two-thirds of the organic matter in the clay is consumed in the baking or burning of the pot.  The organic matter in the middle one-third of the wall of the pot is not consumed.  The clay is a remarkably hard one and is difficult of ignition; this is the reason it makes good cooking vessels.  He further says that the glaze is not a true glaze.  It seems that the resin does nothing except lose its oils when applied to the red-hot pots, and there is left on the surface the unconsumed carbon.

Basket work

All basket work is done by the men.  Much of the time when they are in the fawi or pabafunan, gossiping and smoking, they are busied making the ordinary and necessary utensils of the field and dwelling.  The basket work is all crude, with the possible exception of some of the hats worn by the men.

As is brought forth later under the head of “Commerce,” much basket work is done by only one or two communities, and from them passes in trade over a large area.  Most of the basket work of the area is of bejuco or bamboo.  There are two varieties of bamboo used in the area —­ a’-nis and fi’-ka.  A’-nis is found in the area and fi’-ka is brought in in trade from the southwest.