Native American Jemez Pueblo pottery storyteller, female with 3 children and a pot, by Chrislyn Fragua

Jemez Pottery maker Chrislyn Fragua was born in 1973 to Linda Lucero Fragua, who taught her in the 1980s to harvest the Jemez clay from the nearby hills and to use it to form works of Jemez pottery art.

This particular mother singing storyteller displays Fragua’s gift for creating figurals that include stories of life. The mother is holding a pot while she sings, possibly about the spirit of the pot, for three Jemez children.

Mom wears a traditional Jemez manta simulated in clay and displays the cheeks with sun bursts that are often painted on Jemez figural’s cheeks.

Chrislyn says she uses hand-coiling to start her pieces with an idea of what it will become, but she also says she responds to what the clay asks of her.
7" tall, x 5" deep

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