Polishing the base of the pot, called a comal, with a small stone_image #2

Summary: 
Photographs by Helga Teiwes of the Tohono O'odham.
Description: 

Polishing the base of the pot, called a comal, with a small stone. Ashes are used as a coating between the two, so that the base does not stick to the pot. The slides in this collection were filmed on Kodachrome 64 film. In 2003 the slides were scanned on a Minolta Dimage Multiscan Pro at 48 bit color. Each TIFF scan was 11.68 inches by 7.88 inches with a resolution of 300 ppi. The file size was approx. 47.4 MB. In Nov 2006, the original TIFF scans were cropped, color corrected, resized to 6.08 inches by 8.89 inches with a resolution of 72 ppi and converted to JPEGs using ACDSee, v8.0.

Location: 
Location Description: 

Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona; Topawa, Arizona