Malay Pottery
Traditionally in Malay communities, pottery was typically a woman’s work which she would do once her chores were over, or perhaps when harvesting was completed and the rice field was not yet ready for ploughing. Malay pottery—mainly round-bottomed, wide-mouthed cooking pots and tall, bulbous-bottomed water containers—was distinctive because of its geometric decoration applied with stamped marks or carved wooden paddles. No significant Malay pottery older than 250 years has been found; its fragility was probably due to the corrosive nature of the soil and the humid conditions of the Malay Peninsula.
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- Characteristics of Malay pottery
- Sayong
- Mambong
- Tembeling
- Pulau Tiga
