Tonita Roybal of San Ildefonso Pueblo is acknowledged as one of the finest potters of the twentieth century. Had Maria Martinez not been accorded such fame, Roybal surely would have been. Her work was as fine as that of Maria. Additional to making the pottery, Roybal also painted it, something most potters left for their husbands or other relative to do for them.

Dominguita Pino and Santiago Martinez were the parents of Antonita, as she was known. She changed her name to Tonita Montoya when she married her first husband and Tonita Roybal when she married her second husband, following the death of her first. She would continue to be known as Tonita Roybal after this second marriage in 1916.