Nellie married Douglas Douma, a Hopi man who was employed by her uncle, Tom Pavatea, at his nearby trading post. The couple moved into a house at the bottom of the trail leading up to the reservation, and Nellie gave birth to eight children, who were the first generation of Corn clan descendant children not to be raised in dwellings of their ancestors.
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Barbara Kramer, Nampeyo and Her Pottery
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