Vera Chino

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Vera Chino Ely
Born1943 (age 8182)
Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

Vera Chino Ely (born June 27, 1943) is a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. She is the youngest daughter of Marie Z. Chino, who was also a potter. Vera learned from her mother. [1]

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In the late 1970s she worked with her mother doing fine-line painting on some of her pots. In 1979, she participated in the "One Space: Three Visions" exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. A collection of her works can be seen at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [2]

Vera's sisters, Carrie Charlie (b. 1925), Rose Garcia (b. 1928), and Grace Chino (c.1929–1994), are all award-winning [ clarification needed ] Acoma potters.[ citation needed ]

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  1. Dillingham, Rick (1994). Fourteen families in Pueblo pottery. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. p. 82. ISBN   0826314988.
  2. Schrader, Julie Ann. (2005) "The Morgan collection of Southwest pottery website: research and photography: a project" (MA Thesis). Wichita State University. https://soar.wichita.edu//handle/10057/128