Mida Tafoya Santa Clara Pueblo Black Incised Pottery Wedding Vase

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Mida Tafoya Santa Clara Pueblo Black Incised Pottery Wedding Vase. Dimensions are 7 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide. Signed on the bottom Mida Tafoya Santa Clara.
Mida Tafoya was born in 1931 and comes from a long line of Santa Clara potters. She is the granddaughter of Jose Geronimo and Sara Fina Gutierrez Tafoya. Her aunt is Margaret Tafoya and uncle is Camilo Tafoya. She is the daughter of Christaina Naranjo. She began to make pottery in 1945 and made carved blackware jars, bowls and wedding vases(Schaaf, pg. 119). She enjoys making pottery and working with Mother Earth. She mentions in an interview in Dillingham's book, "Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery",  about how her mother taught her how to speak to the clay and shape it.(pg. 231). She passed her knowledge down to her family.