Adobe Gallery Blog

Tesuque Pueblo, Village of the Narrow Cottonwood Trees, is just north of Santa Fe. Its proximity to Santa Fe allowed potters to sell their work to merchants in Santa Fe who, in turn, sold to tourists visiting the southwest.  The items made for tourist sale were made to appeal to the visitors and their ability to transport them back home, hence, the forms and sizes changed from the larger utilitarian ollas and bowls made for personal use to small pitchers, vases and jars for the collector to take back home as souvenirs of Indian Country. 

Would you like to know more?