Editing Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico (section)

==Arts ==
[[File:Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery making 1916.jpg|thumb|Pottery making at Santa Clara Pueblo, 1916]]
Among the arts practiced at Santa Clara Pueblo, pottery is one of the most well-known.<ref name=":0" /> Traditionally, pottery was made primarily by girls and women, and while many potters today are women, there are many men who make pottery as well. Santa Clara Pueblo potters are known for their black polished and red polished pottery in a distinctive style, especially the use of incised work. "Knife-wing" or eagle feather designs are common on Santa Clara pottery<ref>{{Cite book|title=Pueblo and Navajo contemporary pottery and directory of artists|author=Berger, Guy|date=2004|publisher=Schiffer|others=Schiffer, Nancy.|isbn=0764318969|edition=2nd ed., rev. and enl|location=Atglen, PA|pages=67–77|oclc=57013886}}</ref><ref>[http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/amsw/sw40.htm National Park Service, Santa Clara Pueblo] accessed 2010-05-26</ref><ref>[http://www.indianpueblo.org/19pueblos/santaclara.html Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Santa Clara Pueblo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918220520/http://www.indianpueblo.org/19pueblos/santaclara.html |date=2008-09-18 }} accessed 2010-05-26</ref> There are a number of well-known ceramic artists from Santa Clara. Four approaches are used in the decoration of the majority of Santa Clara Pueblo ceramics: painted designs, impressed patterns, incised designs, and resist-firing with incised or sgraffito designs.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Santa Clara pottery today|url=https://archive.org/details/santaclarapotter00lefr|url-access=registration|first=Betty|last=LeFree|date=1975|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/santaclarapotter00lefr/page/46 46]–56|oclc=948286978}}</ref>