Puki
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Puki is a noun meaning A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots.
Meaning
A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots.
More Meanings
- Any form or mold used for making clay pots by hand.
Example Sentences
Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.
I begin by pinching a base or rolling out a slab that I place in a plaster form, or puki, for support.
She began a pot by forming a pancake of clay between her palms and laying it in a bowl-like vessel which was the bottom of a broken pot, called a puki.
First, I made a puki, a tool used by Native Americans to form a pinch pot. Typically, a puki is a shallow, fired bowl used to keep the bottom of the pinch pot round while holding the entire pot in shape.
Word Forms
- pukis
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pott, pottle, pipkin, pothole, porringer, paten.
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