Linda Tafoya Avanyu Serpent Pot Santa Clara Pueblo

 Santa Clara Pueblo Avanyu Serpent Pot by Linda Tafoya

Dimensions:-

Length: 8 1/2" 

Width: 9"

Opening: 4"

Tribe: Santa Clara Pueblo

Item #: 400024

Linda Tafoya-Sanchez 

Linda Tafoya, granddaughter of Margaret Tafoya and daughter of Betty and Lee Tafoya, was born in 1962 in the Santa Clara Pueblo. Her father Lee taught her how to form vessels and use his method of firing, she made her first pieces by the time she was 12 years old. 

Linda married an Oyenque of San Juan Pueblo and did pottery there for a while using micaceous clay on her pieces, but later returned and remarried to be Linda Tafoya-Sanchez. 

She still creates traditional Santa Clara red and black pottery with some San Juan imagery. Deep carving, light carving, sgraffito, red and black ware, Avanyu serpent motifs, and all of what she's learned along the way from traditions. She also taught her sons, Antonio and Jeremy, the traditional Santa Clara way to make pottery vessels.