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Dorothy Herrera
Cochiti Pueblo
Dorothy Herrera learned her traditional pottery making skills from her mother, Mary Frances Herrera, and her grandmother, Laurencita Herrera (one of the finest Cochiti potters from the 1930s into the 1970s).
Born in 1970, Dorothy was producing pottery for the marketplace by the late 1980s. Dorothy specializes in storyteller figures, some human but mostly animals, especially bears.
Bear storyteller with six cubs
7.5 in H by 6.5 in Dia
5.25 in H by 5.75 in Dia
A miniature grandmother storyteller figure holding 3 children
1.25 in L by 1.25 in W by 1.5 in H
One child held by a miniature grandmother storyteller figure
1 in L by 1 in W by 1.5 in H
A grandmother storyteller figure holding seven children
4.75 in L by 3 in W by 5.25 in H
Two polar bear cubs with a fish riding on the back a mother polar bear4.75 in L by 2 in W by 5.25 in H