Trammel, Jennie

Born in 1929, Jennie Trammel was the daughter of Alcario and Margaret Tafoya. She learned how to make pottery through watching and working with her mother and grandmother, Sara Fina Tafoya, as she was growing up at Santa Clara Pueblo. However, her own daughter was almost grown before she really got into making pottery.

Jennie’s work was part of the Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery exhibition at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology of the University of New Mexico in 1974. Shortly after that she started participating in the Santa Fe Indian Market, earning a Second Place ribbon for a black wedding vase and a Third Place ribbon for a carved red jar in 1976. Then came another Third Place ribbon for a jar in 1977. But she was never a regular participant at any show, she liked to live a very private life. To that end she didn’t produce very much pottery but what she did produce was very well received.

Jennie passed on in 2010.