e models for their students. Unfortunately Malodor’s plans did not materialize before she left the Indian Service and the information she collected about Maria’s life, work, and art, nor the plans Maloof had made to use it were not picked up by anyone else.Maria Martinez’s pottery remains of major collecting interest in the art world due to its supreme sophistication. It dispels the myth that primitive people were incapable of sophistication which may stand the test of time, glow with a maturity and fluidity of design, and reflects the earth philosophy which paraphrases that we as humans are also basically clay vessels capable of great beauty (West). ...
