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For many years, storyteller pottery or storyteller dolls been a part of the Pueblo pottery tradition. The storyteller doll is a clay figure made by the Pueblo people of New Mexico. It is a figure of a storyteller, which is usually a man or a woman with his or her mouth open, surrounded by figures of children or other images that represent listening to a story being told. In 400 AD, these figurines, usually in human female figures, were an integral part of the Anasazi culture. These storyteller pottery disappeared 1500 and 1875, when the first missionaries, who were considered scholars, denounced the making of figurative clay pieces. Storyteller pottery flourished following these years, and became very popular at the Cochiti Pueblo just south of Santa Fe. The storyteller pottery could be seen in forms of animals, birds, caricatures of outsiders, and more recently, in the images of mothers and grandfathers telling stories or singing to children.
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