Catalina Zunie (c. 1862-1949)

Catalina Zunie, Zuni Pueblo, is considered one of the master potters working in the early decades of the 20^th century.  In addition to making pottery, she also was responsible for the survival of such by teaching pottery making in the day school at the pueblo at the time when pottery making was dying out. Avelia Peynetsa is her great-granddaughter.  (Lanmon & Harlow, 2008)

Catalina Zunie, c. 1929. Photograph by Pedro Lemos.
Courtesy of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cat. No. AC02: 876a

Lanmon, Dwight P. and Francis H. Harlow. The Pottery of Zuni Pueblo, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe 008

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