Element III

This modern art piece represents a long iconographic tradition in American Indian society. Tammy Garcia herself comes from a long line of Santa Clara Pueblo artists. Her great-great-great grandmother Sara Fina Tafoya was a potter. Her great-great aunt, Margaret Tafoya, was a noted potter of the early 20th century, along with her sister Christina Naranjo. Subsequent generations of potters in the family included Mary Cain, and Linda Cain, Tammy Garcia's mother.