Santa Ana Pueblo Pottery

Those tribal members who still produced pottery in those days mostly emulated the creations of the Zias. Then the tribe moved downstream closer to the Rio Grande and new sources of clay and temper were found. Still, by the 1920s, the Santa Ana pottery tradition was nearly extinct.

Then Eudora Montoya (the last traditional Santa Ana potter at the time) began holding classes to teach what she knew to other women in the tribe in the 1970s. Little pottery production, however, exists today as there are only a couple potters still producing.