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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.

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1 Maria Martinez Native American Pottery Artist

2 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

3 Pot Making (Coil Building)

4 Outdoor Fire for Kiln

5 Black Pottery

6 Lived in a Pueblo

7 Pueblos Spanish, means "town“ Larger Pueblos, there are several individual Pueblo buildings built around a plaza or square

8 Pueblos Hundreds of people living in them 4 or 5 stories high

9 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


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