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Generally, Mojave men were not potters, but Elmer Gates, who was born in 1929 and lived in Poston, Arizona, on the Fort Mohave Reservation, was an exception. He had learned to make pottery from his aunt. He then continued studying all styles of southwestern pottery and working with various techniques. He sold his work at the Colorado River Indian Tribal Museum in the 1970s. Gates was so confident in his chosen profession that he taught a number of young artists of Mojave and Maricopa tribes, as well as non-natives. Santa Fe ceramicist Rick Dillingham studied with Gates.

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