Acoma Pottery : Native American Acoma Pottery Jar, by Lucy Lewis #175-Sold to Larry

Native American Acoma Pottery 175. Description: 1960's- 70's fine line design with very minor pitting, signed Lucy M. Lewis with a dimension of 5"x 5.25". "Lucy Lewis is regarded as the matriarch of Acoma pottery and alongside Maria Martinez, is one of the best known Southwestern potters. She started making pottery around the turn of the century, continuing a tradition dating back hundreds, if not thousands of years. Lucy M Lewis grew up in the Acoma pueblo, a Pueblo Indian community and the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America. Miss Lewis, who was a self-taught artist, won many awards, including the New Mexico Governor's Award in 1983. She followed pueblo tradition in every step of pottery production offering prayers of thanks to Mother Earth for the clay, taking only as much clay as she needed, working the clay with only her hands, forming the vessel from coils of clay, scraping the walls with tools fashioned from gourds, painting the vessel with slips and paints