The Art Spirit, Maria Martinez bronze Bronze 8” x 8” x

Bronze 8” x 8” x 5”

Nizhoni has become a young mother who teaches her own daughters by example as her mother showed her and her mother did her

Handmade beads with sterling silver spacers

Inlayed with turquoise

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The Art Spirit, Maria Martinez bronze Bronze 8” x 8” xDimensions: 24"H x 22"W x 22"D Weight: 86 lbs. Edition of 35 This is a portrait of the pueblo potter, Maria Martinez (1887 1980), which I was asked to sculpt by the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, NM. Maria's gloss black on matt black pots are internationally known, and she is given credit for helping Native American creations to be taken seriously as fine art. Millicent Rogers had collected many of her finest examples, and the first sculpture in