“I want to continue the traditional methods and designs,” Tonita Hamilton Nampeyo said. “I don’t want to deviate from what my mom [Fannie Polacca] and grandmother [Nampeyo] did and hand it down to the young ones. That’s the most important thing, to keep tradition alive.” The Nampeyo family was featured in “Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery” at the University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Before that 1974 ground-breaking exhibit, collectors knew of only
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