Juana Leno

Acoma Pueblo

Juana Leno
Juana Leno

Juana Leno (1917-2000) is known as one of the four Matriarchs of Acoma Pueblo Pottery. She together with Marie Z. Chino, Jessie Garcia and Lucy M. Lewis essentially revived the traditional world of Acoma pottery simply by doing it the traditional way: using stone age implements and methods to produce fine art in-and-on a ceramic vessel. They also revived many of the ancient Mimbres designs that were found on pot sherds littering the ground around them at Acoma.


Deer and heart line design on a black and white jar
Black-on-white jar with a deer-with-heart-line design
5.75 in H by 7.5 in Dia
A collection of Mimbres aniumal figures in black around the white body of the piece with a band of red corrugation above the shoulder
A band of red corrugation above the shoulder and a body of black-on-white Mimbres animal figures on a polychrome jar
8.5 in H by 9 in Dia
A black-on-white snowflake fine line and geometric design on a polychrome jar
A polychrome jar decorated with a black-on-white snowflake fine line and geometric design
10 in Dia by 8.25 in H