Marie P. Herrera

Marie P. Herrera is the only artisan from Nambe Pueblo credited in the book Nacimientos for making nativity sets at the time the book was published in 1979.  The authors stated “Marie Herrera does different styles but is perhaps best known for her micaceous clay figures on which she uses a minimum of detailing, just a touch to delineate eyes and mouths.  The figures are large and rather primitive, but the faces have great character and, as one expert notes: ‘They have a very definite folk art feeling.’”

Reference: Nacimientos: Nativity Scenes by Southwest Indian Artisans by Doris Monthan, et al.

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