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ID: 500127578
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500127578

 

Record Type: Person
Tafoya, Margaret (Pueblo potter, 1904-2001)

Note: Renowned potter active in the Santa Clara Pueblo near Santa Fe. She was called Corn Blossom in Tewa, the native language of the Southwestern pueblos. Matriarch of the Santa Clara potters, she was known for producing particularly large-scaled vessels. She has been exhibited worldwide and was named folk artist of the year by the National Endowment for the Arts, 1984.
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Names:
Tafoya, Margaret (preferred,V,index)
Margaret Tafoya (V,display)
Tafoya, Margaret Marie (V,LCO)
Corn Blossom (Tewa name) (V)
Tafoya, Maria Margarita (birth name) (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Native American
Pueblo
Santa Clara Pueblo

Roles:
artist (preferred)
potter
ceramicist

Gender: female

Events:
awarded:   Folk artist of the year 1984  United States (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
grandparent of ....  Youngblood, Nancy  
..........................  (Native American ceramicist, born 1955) [500126595]
parent of ....  Tafoya, Lu Ann  
................  (Native American ceramicist, born 1938) [500336509]
uncle/aunt of ....  Lonewolf, Joseph  
........................  (Native American ceramicist and lithographer, born 1932) [500127039]
uncle/aunt of ....  Medicine Flower, Grace  
........................  (Native American ceramicist, born 1938) [500127126]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Tafoya, Margaret (I)

Biographies:
(Pueblo potter, 1904-2001) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American potter, 20th c.) ..... [BHA]
(Native American ceramicist, born 1904) ..... [VP]
(Native American artist, born 1904-) ..... [BVRL]
(American ceramicist, 1904-2001) ..... [NMWA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Corn Blossom ........ [VP]
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) accessed 13 October 2005
Margaret Tafoya ........ [VP]
................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Tafoya, Margaret ........ [BHA Preferred, NMWA Preferred]
..................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................................  Bunting Visual Resources Library, University of New Mexico (2000-)
..................................  National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
..................................  NMWA database (2018-)
Tafoya, Margaret Marie ........ [VP]
.............................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 85298550; accessed 13 October 2005
Tafoya, Maria Margarita ........ [VP]
...............................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, BVRL-UNM, Gallery Systems, NMWA, VP]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Bunting Visual Resources Library, University of New Mexico (2000-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n85298550
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Guide to Exhibited Artists: Sculptors (1985)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n85298550
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 85298550; accessed 13 October 2005
....................  Matuz, St. James Guide to Native North American Artists (1998)
....................  NMWA database (2018-)
....................  Peterson, Pottery by American Indian Women (1997)
....................  Portfolio 2/5 (1980)
 
Note:
English .......... [BVRL-UNM, VP]
.......... Martin, Margaret Tafoya, New York Times (2001)
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