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Birth
1940 (San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico)
Death
2008 (San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico)
Lived/Active
New Mexico
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polychrome ceramics-inlaid turquoise, painting
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| Tony Da descended from a most talented family of potters at San Ildefonso Pueblo. His father, Popovi Da, was one of the first pueblo potters to break with tradition and create something other than black-on-black pottery. Likewise, his grandparents, Maria and Julian Martinez, were even more ahead of their time when, in the early 1900s, they broke with tradition when they created the now-famous black-on-black pottery, breaking away at that time from the polychrome wares that were tradi (showing 500 of 4797 characters). |
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