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-the clay is mixed with sand in proportion of 1 headload of clay to 1 blek of sand (thus more sand than clay)
- they fire their pots w/ coconut husks, small twigs, daun "rumbia" (a kind of palm)
   -80 husks bought per firing at 10Rp@
   - also five bunches (ikat) rumbia leaves 400Rp@
   -twigs sometimes bought + sometimes collected
   if buy use +/- 5 ikat @ 200Rp if collect these materials rather than buy they must walk far
-fire 3x a mo. in day season, 1x in rainy
-fire 10-20 pots per time
-the ibu we talked to sells her pots to bicycle bakuls who resell them keliling around the city - some also sold through Pasar Aceh
-1 large pot sells to the bakul for 1000Rp, 1 small for 300 Rp
-the villagers usually planr rice in the rainy season but there has been a drought for last 2 yrs.
-in 2 days time can make 2 large pots or 3 or 4 small

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-clay sells by the surface square meter at 4000 Rp per 1 M2 (squared) - less than one M deep get 15-20 pots per M2 (squared)
-sane is bought; 6 M2 (squared) costs 12,000Rp; bought out by truck from a beach area by a "city person" - nobody in the village owns a motorized vehicle for carrying on Monday, my second field day in Kab. Aceh Besar, we headed out on the road north from Banda Aceh first stop was at Lamgnah village where Dinas Perindustrian has its demonstration salt project
-Aceh differs from Glava in that final process in salt making done through cooking over a wood stove
-Langnah apparently enrolled in 2 1st-yr. Tingkat (II projects and 2 2nd-yr. tingkat II projects (see above pp. 18-24) we unfortunately visited Lamgnah on the 1st rainy day in months so that salt-makers not working
-they say that cooked salt finer than evaporated (whiter, smaller crystals) - evaporated bitter tasting