Using two machetes as tongs, Linda Gualinga places a just-fired bowl with a turtle-shaped base on a scrap of metal. Her sister Olivia applies Shilquilu tree sap on another pot while it is still quite hot from the firing. The hot surface of the pottery melts the tree sap and leaves a varnish-like clear coating. The potters must work quickly to finish coating the pot before it cools, but if the pottery is too hot, the resin burns. One more pot can be seen in the hot pile of ashes behind the potters.