Santa Clara Pueblo’s traditional name is Kha’p’oo Owinge Valley of the Wild Roses. Santa Clara Pottery and its Pueblo potters are famous for their hand-crafted pottery, specifically blackware and redware with deep engravings. The Tafoya Family lineage is well known for their contributions to the legend of Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery. Here are three recent acquisitions to the gallery from women of the Tafoya family.

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Margaret Tafoya from the artistic lineage of the Tafoya family was a matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters and is regarded as one of the great masters of Pueblo ceramics. Known by her Tewa name Corn Blossom, Margaret was born on August 13, 1904, at Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico.

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