Santa Clara Pueblo
Anita Suazo of the Santa Clara Pueblo has been making award winning pottery for 50 some years. Anita's fine pottery began placing at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 1979. The featured pot has some of her favorite design elements, rain clouds and kiva steps.
This nice Santa Clara red toned pot is signed "Minnie" and measures 6-1/2" wide and 6" high.
This great simply designed cream pot is decorated with earth tone clay colors and is from the Santa Clara Pueblo and signed "Sunbird". This amazing pot measures 6" wide and 4.5" high.
A nicely incised hand-coiled pot by Phyllis Tafoya of Santa Clara Pueblo. The incised image is a Water Serpent. This pot is four and one-half" wide by 2 and one-half inches tall.
Incised hand-coiled black-fired pot by Madeline Naranjo of Santa Clara Pueblo. This pot is three and one-half inches in diameter by three and one-half inches tall.
This beautifully-shaped redware pot by Santa Clara potter Greg Garcia has been stone-polished to a wonderful luster. This pot is five inchees tall. Greg Garcia is the grandson of Severa and Cleto Tafoya, son of Lydia Tafoya and Santiago Garcia. He has won First, Second and Third prizes at Santa Fe Indian Market.
This 13 1/2" tall Santa Clara wedding vase by Vickie Martinez features details of roses on it. This is a very lovely and well-made piece of pottery.
Minnie Vigil and her family are well known for their quality Santa Clara pottery. Minnie uses Polychrome colors created from clay slips. The wedding vase pictured has been painted with cloud and rainbow symbols. "Minnie" Santa Clara is signed on the bottom. Vase is 5-1/2" tall.
This traditional black Santa Clara vase was made by Elaine Salazar. It measures 5.25" in height and features a plain black satin finish with no designs.
Elaine Salazar and her sisters, Angela Salazar and Yolanda Velarde, are a family of fine young Santa Clara potters. She was taught to pot by her mother, Frances Salazar and her grandmother, the respected potter Flora Naranjo.
In Gregory Schaaf's book on northern Pueblo pottery, Elaine said she enjoys potting because "it gives me a good feeling to know that I made something with my hands and to know that people like my work."
This well finished and polished Santa Clara pot is a deep red, with cream finished designs incised around it. It was made by Joe Chaveria and measures 7" high by 7.75" in diameter.
