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Maria and Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo) posed outdoors, 1931. Entitled "Julian and Marie." New Mexico. Gift of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Maria and Julian's Black Pottery
(1938/1977, 11 min. Silent. B&W.) US
Director: Arthur Baggs

Maria and Julian Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo make the famed "black on black" pottery, an ancient technique which these potters revived.

Image credit: Maria and Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo) posed outdoors, 1931. Entitled "Julian and Marie." New Mexico. Gift of the Bureau of American Ethnology. - photograph by Van Zile
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