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 DOROTHY
HERRERA -Cochiti Potter
Dorothy
is the daughter of deceased Cochiti potter Mary Frances Herrera.
Mary Frances started making storytellers in the years after Helen
Cordero invented the form at Cochiti in 1964. Dorothy learned the
art from her mother and after her mother passed away around 1990
Dorothy was able to continue and expand upon her mother's work.
Dorothy makes three distinct styles of storytellers (minature, solid-body
and hollow-body) as well as wonderful bears (both seated and standing
on all fours). She will occasionally also do cats and owls. She
has brought a great deal of creativity to the figurative style of
pottery for which Cochiti Pueblo is so well known.
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