The first pueblo storyteller was made by artist helen cordero in 1964.
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With the coming of the railroad to new mexico in the late 1800s native american artists delighted in mimicking their new visitors in storyteller sculptures and their caricatures included supplicating padres tourists businessmen cowboys and dancing bears.
Storytellers are one example of contemporary handbuilt pueblo pottery.
Helen was a cochiti pueblo potter from cochiti pueblo new mexico who grew frustrated with making typical forms of native american pottery.
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The first pueblo storyteller is attributed to helen cordero of cochiti pueblo who created her first storyteller in the image of her grandfather an important man in the pueblo and a wonderful storyteller.
The figures sometimes hold important pueblo objects as well such as drums pottery rugs and other meaningful artifacts.
Handmade native american indian pottery story tellers of the acoma cochiti jemez and other pueblos.
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