ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the present-day pot-making technology in Garo Hills in detail, and tries to correlate it with archaeological pottery (from secondary literature). Analogy is used in order to answer some archaeological questions by looking at present traditions. In the following, a detailed ethnographic account is therefore given and comparisons made with potsherds from the archaeological context. The ethnographic data for this chapter is an outcome of an ongoing project in collaboration with Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.