Lewis, Emma

Emma Lewis was born into Acoma Pueblo in October 1931, the daughter of Toribio Haskaya Lewis and famous potter Lucy M. Lewis. Emma had six brothers and sisters. They all learned how to make pottery from their mother as they were growing up.

Emma mostly made jars and seed pots, decorating them with Mimbres- and Anasazi-Revival animals, birds, turtles, mountain sheep, rabbits and geometric designs. She also often decorated her pieces with parrots, berry bushes, split leaves and deer-with-heart-line designs.

Emma was a participant in the Santa Fe Indian Market from 1960 to 2001 and earned many ribbons there. Emma also traveled the world for 20 years, giving demonstrations and leading pottery making workshops, often with her sister Dolores Lewis Garcia. Emma passed on in 2013.