San Ildefonso Pueblo

Let’s Look at This Tribe and Learn Something about Their

Culture

You’ll learn the answers... Where is the San Ildefonso Pueblo? What Do They Make? Who Creates Their Pottery-Women

or Men? How Do They Make the Pottery?

Name 3 Steps. Name a World Famous San

Ildefonso Potter

Geography

New Mexico– San Ildefonso

Pueblo is located 23 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

– 9.5% of people living in New Mexico are Native Americans (173,483 people as of the year 2000)

What is Special about San Ildefonso Pueblo? San Ildefonso Pueblo

is famous for its pottery, especially the black pieces.

Traditionally, women created the pottery.

Maria Martinez, in the lower right picture, was a world famous San Ildefonso potter.

How Their Pottery is Made Coil Method

– Create a base– Create coils– Join clay– Add coils– Shape walls– Add texture to sides

Bake Pottery in Oven

San Ildefonso Pottery

Different Shapes Different Colors

What Do You Remember? Where is the San Ildefonso Pueblo? What Do They Make? Who Creates Their Pottery-Women

or Men? How Do They Make the Pottery?

Name 3 Steps. Name a World Famous San

Ildefonso Potter

Works Cited

San Ildefonso Pueblo– http://www.insiders.com/santafe/main-cultures3.htm

Maria Martinez Photograph– http://www.mariapottery.com/

San Ildefonso Map– http://www.newmexico.org/maps/pueblosmap.html

Six Pueblo Pots– http://www.puebloarts.com/san%2-Ildefonso/san_ildefonso.htm

Pueblo Pot– http://www.mariapottery.com

San Ildefonso Pueblo– http://www.newmexico.org/culture/pueblo_sanildefonso.html

Works Cited

Maria Martinez Biography– http://www.mariapottery.com/bio/bio.html

Coil Pottery Lesson– http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/psemrau/lesson.htm

San Ildefonso Pueblo– http://www.cinprograms.org/people/pueblo/sanildefonso.html

San Ildefonso Pueblo– http://www.8northern.org/sanildefonso.php

New Mexico– http://geography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://

www.infoplease.com/atlas/state/newmexico.html