Khmer Pottery Making in Chanlak Dai, Southern Cambodia

Pottery making technique at the Chanlak Dai village, southern Cambodia, is reported through observing that of a potter of the family who introduced pottery making into the village in the late 1930s. This observation will become a baseline for future studies on intra- and inter-village comparisons of pottery making. A provisional comparison with the pottery making in a village in which pottery making in Chanlak Dai is likely to have been eventually originated indicates slight differences on some aspects of the techniques and associated concepts. Further investigations into the pottery making at Chanlak Dai may also be able to clarify factors responsible for the localizaton of pottery making villages in Cambodia.