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occasionally into the morning hours using Petromah
-biggest langanan of Ngadio's? is Narno, from Kuncen area near Asri - he comes once in 2 months with truks & buys about 300 pieces worth 1 million rupiahs at a time from 3 households, i.e.
Ngadio's
Paimin (younger br. Ngadio)
Pawirokamit (uncle of Ngadio)
300 pieces consisting of about 50 diff. styles
usually given half of money in advance & rest when pick up goods
Pak Ngadio owns no sawah, no tegal & only 600M2 of pekarangan, 50 of which recently purchased 
-in one month uses 1 "qibig" of clay = 4 loads (angkutan) - says 1 qibig costs 6000 Rp. ((why so much higher than figures quoted at Karyos & Buangs?)) 
- gets clay from desa Bibis still in [[Bangunjuivo?]] kal. but [[strikethrough]] far  to the south, not along Karangjati hill
[[firing?]] 2 times a month, 20 or

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30 pieces each time
each [[firing?]] uses 5 bicycle loads of dry materials @ 200Rp = Rp 1000
for each [[firing]] 3 bicycle loads of wood @1000 = Rp 3000
- prices :
large complex figure 10,000R
med.                 3500RP
small                1000-2000RP
celengan sell for only Rp 50 @ ((this means 
[[?Ibu?]] gets Rp 5000 or about Rp 165 a day))
-mixes clay in proportion of of 2 clay + 1 pasir
acc.to Ngadio figures made with higher proportion of sand not strong
says must use clean water when making figures - if use dirty or soapy water as some people do figures break easily
if Ngadio sells a figure for 1000Rp, will retail in Jakarta for 2500 - 3000Rp
Ngadio does not sign his figures because says he doesn't care to be famous ("tidak ingin namanya ditjolkan")