Nora Naranjo-Morse - An artist in two cultures

Friday, April 12, 2002

In New Mexico, clay runs in ribbons in the hillsides. Before a Pueblo Indian woman goes to dig clay, she humbly prays to the Clay Mother, promising if she is given clay she will give her body back to the Earth when it is time. She takes only as much clay as she needs, then closes the "wound."

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