Mary Chalan

Cochiti Pueblo

Mary Chalan was born into Cochiti Pueblo in 1939, the daughter of Raymond and Barbarita Herrera. She learned how to make pottery from her mother-in-law, Helen Cordero. Like Helen, Mary made mostly figurative pottery, mostly storytellers.


Four children on a sitting grandmother storyteller figure
A sitting grandmother storyteller figure holding two children
6.25 in L by 4.75 in W by 7.25 in H

Cochiti Pueblo Potters