Isabel Medina Toribio, Zia Pueblo Potter

Zia Pueblo artist Isabel Medina Toribio was actively making pottery 1920s-1930s. Designs of interlocking spirals around the base of the neck are designs that appear frequently on her pottery. Isabel was the daughter of Jesus (or Juan de Dios) Medina and Isadora Lobato Median.

Isabel Medina Toribio (c.1882-1940) Aitiyé married Alejandro Toribio, eldest son of Rosalia Medina Toribio, about 1904. They had one child: Maria (or Marina) Gothlota. Isabel Median Toribio may have learned potting from her mother-in-law, Rosalia Medina Toribio, or from her mother, Isidora Lobato Medina.

Photo Source:  by Edward S. Curtis, 1925

Reference: The Pottery of Zia Pueblo by Francis H. Harlow and Dwight P. Lanmon

TAGS: Zia Pueblo, Pueblo Pottery, Rosalia Medina Toribio