Whats with the clay pot beside the river

If you managed to clear all the rubble from the mausoleum in the bottom left hand corner a bowl of water appears on the steps of the mausoleum. Use the bowl of water to go to the river to search for gold with it. If your villager finds some gold they will put it into the clay pot. Note: Your villager might not find gold every time and you need to find some 3 times to completely fill the clay pot. If you click on the pot it tells you how full it is (empty, 1/3 full, 2/3 full or full).
Once the clay pot is filled put it into the fire and when it is done the clay falls away to reveal a golden ball. Let a villager take it and see what happens.

Once you have cleared the leaves and debris from the mausoleum, you will see a pot near the entrance. Drag a villager to it, and he/she will pan for gold, once you've done this about three times, they will put it in the pot near the river. Then your ready to put the pot in the fire pit, once it's done smelting, your villager will take it to the Blind Totem near the jungle where the Heathen Chief is, when they put the golden orb in, you will have the Blind Totem Puzzle solved too. Hoped this helped!

The pot is for gold panning. You first need to clear the mausoleum. To do this you need to either: make a devotee try to convert the heathens blocking the mausoleum. Then make a another villager try to convert them again. That should make the heathens run away. Keep doing this and make your builders unblock the mausoleum, then you will clear it. The other way is the disassemble the blocking totem. You need to use a master builder for this. The heathens blocking the mausoleum will try to stop you. Which is not good if there are red and orange heathens blocking it. So you have to disassemble the totem before that rd and orange heathens start unblocking the mausoleum. Once you've cleared, you will se a bowl with water in it. This is a gold pan. Make a villager gold pan in the river. He/she should start putting the gold she/he finds, into the pan. You then use the gold to smelt into a golden eye. You put the eye in the blind totem. Then you will uncover the forest.