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1958Born First Mesa, Arizona
2017 Died
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
—Studio Potter
Mark Tahbo who was a member of the Hopi-Tewa Spider Clan, is known for thin walled polychrome pots constructed and fired in the Hopi tradition.
Tahbo and his sister, Dianne Tahbo, learned to make pots from their great-grandmother Grace Chapalla.[1]
[1]https://kinggalleries.com/brand/tahbo-mark/ cited November 19, 2018, 9:00PM
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Trimble, Stephen. Talking with the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, 2007.
Indian Arts and Crafts Association. Collecting Authentic Indian Arts and Crafts: Traditional Work of the Southwest. Book Publishing Company, 1999.
King, Charles S. Spoken Through Clay: Native Pottery of the Southwest—The Eric Dobkin Collection. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2017.
Schaaf, Gregory. Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies, Ca. 1800-Present. Santa Fe, NM: Center for Indigenous Arts & Cultures, 1998.
Citation: Clark, Donald. "The Marks Project." Last modified January 23, 2023. http://www.themarksproject.org:443/marks/tahbo