[Master Potter, 1969]

  • Texas Tech University.
Publication date
April 1969
Publisher
Digitized by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library.

Abstract

Photograph of a pottery display at the Texas Tech Museum taken on April 18, 1969. The accompanying caption tucked behind the photograph states "MASTER POTTER -- Madeline Naranjo, who began learning the ancient art of potter in her native Santa Clara Pueblo when she was 6 years old, demonstrate her skill Friday before informal audiences numbering about 300 at the West Texas Museum. After the afternoon session, she fired the pottery in an 'open' kiln behind the museum. The black pottery she makes was known to her trive in the 1700s, and the firing method she uses is almost the same one as that of her ancestors -- metal substituted for sandstone in the fire and dry manure now used to smother the flames in place of the dead vegetation used befo...

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