KORAT

Everyday Life, Pottery, and Religion.

By: Abbo Nathan

BAAN PRASAT

I learned that Thai people use these boats to bring goods to other villages. They hold lot’s of things because they are long and very buoyant.

BAAN PRASAT

In this picture is a bucket of snails. I didn’t ask what they were for but I think that the people who lived in this house are going to eat these snails. Either that or maybe even use them to clean a pond, but I doubt that.

BAAN PRASAT

By seeing this plant covered machine, I saw different tools Thai local people use for their everyday life. I don’t know for sure what it is but I do see a fan and an exhaust pipe in the back of the machine so it probably move and my friends and I thought it might be used for farming.

BAAN PRASAT

I learned that the villagers in Baan Prasat are very conservative. This is a flower pot made out of a tire. It also shows that they are precise in work because this tire has designs and paintings. I found this a very interesting picture and I am glad I took it.

BAAN PRASATAt almost every house my friends and I went to there was one of these. It is a spirit house. I have seen a lot of these in Bangkok and I know that Thai people pray to them and put food and candles on them. I think it is to give Buddha items in return for helping them.

BAAN PRASAT

While I was in Baan Prasat I found this coconut shell hanging from the ceiling of a shed. The Thai local people use it as a bird house.

BAAN PRASATIn almost every yard in Baan Prasat I saw a rooster. The local people (I am guessing) kill and then eat the roosters, and save the female chicken for their eggs.

BAAN PRASAT

These are the fish that came from the river. I saw a woman fishing in the river, and when I went to one the homes I saw this bucket full of fish. I don’t think anyone else got this picture

PHI MAI Here is a close up of the Naga bridge. Thai people believed that it was the gateway to the Spirit World and crossed this bridge when they were going to pray.

PHI MAIThis was in Phi Mai. It is ruins of an old temple. I see strings around it so my guess is they are fixing it so tourists can looking inside.

PHI MAI

This is the ruins of a temple that Thai people use to come and pray. It is one of the temples that is in the Spirit World because you must go across the Naga bridge to get there.

PHI MAI

This was one of the smaller temples in Phi Mai. It was almost completely ruined. It was to the right of one of the larger temples.

PHI MAI

This is a window in one of the temple ruins. These temples didn’t have glass windows, only these pillars. Some of the windows didn’t have these pillars because they broke with age.

PHI MAI

This is one of the main temples in Phi Mai. It had corridors going left right, forward, and behind, each leading to another place to pray.

PHI MAI

I think that this is an ancient shrine. It was located in between two temples in the Phi Mai ruins.

PHI MAI

Here is a temple. The statues in the front of the temple are called the Naga. They are the creature that protected the path to the Spirit World. If you crossed the Naga then you were believed to be in the spirit world.

PHI MAI

This is one of the corridors that was in a Phi Mai ruins temple. These temples had a lot of these hallways and most of them I went through led outside, to another temple either left, right, or in front of the temple I was in.

POTTERY BARN

These were some of the first pots we saw. These got painted, and were outside for two days to dry before they were sold.

POTTERY BARNThis man was making his pot. He put a clump of clay on the spinning wheel and put his fingers into the middle. Eventually it got bigger and than he smoothed the outside to finish it.

POTTERY BARN This is the kiln. The kiln is what makes the pots solid. After the pot is done in the kiln they paint the pot and let it dry.

POTTERY BARN

More pots. These have a nice design. When I was making my pot I accidently cut a hole through mine but these holes were meant to be there.

POTTERY BARN

These are sacks of clay. They take the clay out and put it into a machine, that shapes the clay into a cylinder shape.

POTTERY BARN

These are sacks of clay. They take the clay out and put it into a machine, that shapes the clay into a cylinder shape.

POTTERY BARN

These pots just came out of the kiln and they will be painted then put in the master kiln before they are sold.