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A Sacred Assignment

Pahponee's pottery emerged from a powerful experience that continues to guide her art and her life

TO CREATE Her very first pot, Pahponee-who goes by her Kickapoo name, which means Snow Woman-used 20th-century ceramic techniques, wheel-forming the vessel and firing it in an electric kiln. For her second pot, she stepped back at least a hundred years. She asked her father and other relatives how pottery was made by their ancestors. Then she taught herself to work the clay as they did, coil-forming the pot and firing it outdoors in an open-pit fire using buffalo dung.

In both cases the artist was guided by prayerful intent and inner listening that told her what she should create and how her ...

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