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- ↑ Dillingham, Rick (1994). Fourteen families in Pueblo pottery. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. p. 82. ISBN 0826314988.
- ↑ 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
- Dittert, Alfred E; Fred Plog (1980). Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press in cooperation with the American Federation of the Arts. ISBN 0873582713.
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