Maria Martinez Native American Pottery Artist
Biography of Maria Martinez Lived and worked in New Mexico Loved pottery from a young age, watch her aunt make coil bowls Pottery making was a family event (husband, sister, son) 88 yrs. old at her death in 1980
Pot Making (Coil Building)
Outdoor Fire for Kiln
Black Pottery
Lived in a Pueblo
Pueblos Spanish, means "town“ Larger Pueblos, there are several individual Pueblo buildings built around a plaza or square
Pueblos Hundreds of people living in them 4 or 5 stories high
How were Pueblos built? Several ways- use rocks, build a wall and cover the rocks with a plaster of mud on the outside Adobe-type of brick made from straw and mud