Myra Little Snow

Santa Clara Pueblo

Myra Little Snow is a member of the Camilio Tafoya family of Santa Clara Pueblo. She was born in 1962, a daughter of Lucy Year Flower and Joseph Louis Tafoya. Through watching and working with her mother, Myra was making her own pottery by the time she was 12.

Myra also credits her grandfather, Camilio Sunflower Tafoya, her aunt Grace Medicine Flower, and cousins Forrest Naranjo, Greg Lonewolf, Rosemary Lonewolf and Susan Lonewolf with inspiration and support.

Myra has made several different styles of pottery but her favorite seems to be the seed pot. She usually makes black seed pots decorated with lightly carved and sgraffito geometric designs. Her seed pots have earned her at least one First Place ribbon at the Santa Fe Indian Market.

Learning Path
Sgraffito feather, flower, butterfly, bear paw and geometric design on a black seed pot
Black seed pot with sgraffito flower, butterfly, feather, bear paw and geometric design
4.25 in H by 3.75 in Dia
Sgraffito kokopelli and geometric design on a black seed pot
Black seed pot decorated with a sgraffito kokopelli and geometric design
2.25 in H by 4.25 in Dia
Sgraffito moth and feather design on a black seed pot
Black seed pot decorated with a sgraffito moth and feather design
2.25 in H by 3.75 in Dia
Sgraffito feather, bird, flower and geometric design on a black seed pot
Black seed pot with a sgraffito feather, bird, flower and geometric design
4.75 in H by 4 in Dia
A plain polished miniature black jar
A polished plain miniature black jar
1 in Dia by 1.5 in H
Miniature black jar
A miniature black jar
1.25 in H by 1.5 in H
A plain miniature black jar
A miniature plain, polished black jar
1.25 in Dia by 1 in H
A plain miniature black seed pot
A plain miniature black seed pot
1.25 in Dia by 0.5 in H
A sgraffito geometric design on a black seed pot
A black seed pot with a sgraffito geometric design
4 in Dia by 2.25 in H

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