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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPW_pueblo-of-san-ildefonso_San-Ildefonso-Pueblo-NM.html
In the 1500's, migrants from the Pajarito Plateau joined their Tewa-speaking relatives at San Ildefonso. The pueblo is famous as the home of the late Mar?a Mart?nez and other makers of polished black pottery. The modern church, a replica of that o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUPU_maria-montoya-martinez-povika-pond-lily_San-Ildefonso-Pueblo-NM.html
Maria Martinez was a self-taught potter who helped elevate Pueblo pottery to a respected art form. She and her husband Julian were successful polychrome potters and together revived black pottery. Their work improved the economic conditions of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXG_tesuque-rain-gods_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Seated clay figurines known as rain gods or "rain catchers" spring from Tesuque Pueblos's deep-rooted figurative pottery tradition. Popularized in the 1880's, Tesuque women made and sold the figurines in a variety of colors and designs, and earned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXF_pueblo-of-tesuque_Santa-Fe-NM.html
The name Tesuque is a Spanish variation of the Tewa name Tetsugeh, meaninig "narrow place of cotton wood trees." The small Tewa speaking pueblo of Tesuque was established before 1200, and was first visited by Europeans in 1591. It is one of the mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWZ_feliciana-tapia-viarrial-1904-1988_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Feliciana Tapia Viarrial helped estaablish today's Pueblo of Pojoaque. Pojoaque, or Posuwageh, water drinking place, is a Tewa village founded circa A.D. 900. By 1919, the Pojoaque homelands were severely diminished. Most members left for neighbor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWX_the-st-francis-womens-club_Santa-Fe-NM.html
The St. Francis Women's Club was instrumental in raising funds to rebuild San Francisco de As Church, which had been condemned and demolished in about 1960. Their main fundraiser was the annual Fourth of July Ceremonial, featuring dances of Nambe …