Four Centuries of Pueblo Pottery
Re-Opening Date TBD
Historic Southwest Museum Mt. Washington Campus
About the Exhibition
Featuring more than 100 pieces of rare ceramics from the Autry’s Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, this exhibition traces the dramatic changes that transformed the Pueblo pottery tradition in the era following sixteenth-century Spanish colonization to the present. Organized by Pueblo language groups, the show includes pieces by such well-known potters as Maria and Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Nampeyo (Hopi) and her descendants, Juan Cruz Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo) and Tonita Peña Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Gladys Paquin (Laguna Pueblo), and many others.
Highlights (Click image for details)
Polychrome storage jar
Polychrome storage jar, Tesuque Pueblo, circa 1870–1880. Anonymous Gift. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 1.A.232
Polychrome bowl
Polychrome bowl, Nampeyo or Annie Nampeyo (Hopi), circa 1901. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 30.L.47
Polychrome bowl
Polychrome bowl, Zuni Pueblo, circa 1880. The General Charles McC. Reeve Collection. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 491.G.1002
Polychrome earthenware owl
Polychrome earthenware owl, Zuni Pueblo, circa 1920–1924. Gift of Mr. Fred K. Hinchman. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 535.G.163
Candlestick
Candlestick, Zuni Pueblo, circa 1993. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 549.G.63
Polychrome lidded box
Polychrome lidded box, Maria and Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), 1919. Gift of Mrs. Ina Sizer Cassidy. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 620.G.43A–B
Polychrome jar
Polychrome jar, Trinidad Medina, (Zia Pueblo), circa 1930–1940. Gift of James Leland. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 1524.G.6
Pot
Pot, Grace Medicine Flower (Santa Clara Pueblo) and Camilio Tafoya (Santa Clara Pueblo), circa 1980. Gift of Erica de F. Neville. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 2258.G.2
Storyteller doll
Storyteller doll, Seferina Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo), circa 1990s. Gift of Terry and Ben Hayes. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum; 5065.G.58