Santa Ana Pueblo Pottery and Fine Art

From looking at the recent book on Santa Ana pottery, one would suspect that pottery production at Santa Ana Pueblo was ample in the 19th and 20th centuries, but very little pottery from this time period has survived. Most of what has survived is in museum collections. Rarely does one find it for sale at auction or in galleries.

Pottery from Santa Ana Pueblo is amongst the scarcest of all pueblo pottery. According to Batkin¹  “As far as is known, all decorated pottery made at Santa Ana in the nineteenth century was polychrome. Reliable sources state that pottery was made in considerable quantities until 1900, although not much has survived. By the 1920s, the tradition had practically died out. Apparently no potters entered their work for judging at the Indian Fair between 1922 and 1924.”

The pueblo islocated just north of Bernalillo at U.S. 550 near I-25, but its traditional Old Village is eight miles northwest of there. The Feast day is July 26th honoring their patron St. Anne.