"puki" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Figure in Clay, →ISBN, page 80:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2004, Susan Ware, Notable American Women, →ISBN, page 418:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots."
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          "ref": "2012, Jo-Ann Mapson, Finding Casey, →ISBN, page 268:",
          "text": "Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.",
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          "ref": "2008, Deborah Morgenthal, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Penland Book of Ceramics, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "I begin by pinching a base or rolling out a slab that I place in a plaster form, or puki, for support..",
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        "Any form or mold used for making clay pots by hand."
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