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Large Rugs. Vintage Baskets. Vintage Katsina. Vintage Pottery. Vintage Rugs-Weavings-Textiles. Other Art. Bead Work. Cordero was never satisfied with her bowls and pitchers, but then her cousin suggested that she try figures instead.

In Cordero's words, it was "like a flower blooming. One of the traditional figurine forms was a seated female figure holding a child, known as the Singing Mother. When Cordero tried her hand at this form, she "kept seeing my grandfather [Santiago Quintana]. That one, he was a really good storyteller, and there was always lots of us grandchildren around him. She called him Storyteller. Almost immediately, the figure brought Cordero to public attention.

Her figures have been exhibited in museums across the United States and Canada, and she received the Governor's Award for Pottery.

Cordero's reinvention of a Cochiti figurative pottery tradition initiated a revolution in contemporary Pueblo ceramics. In a Storyteller exhibit in Albuquerque in , there were more than figurines by 63 potters. Her husband and son drove one hundred miles to bring home the cedar wood she used to fire her pieces, covered with cow manure, on an open iron grate behind her house. All Rights Reserved. Design by Story Portrait Media.



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