Maxine Toya is well known for her figurative pottery.  This is a piece of her pottery from the 1990s.  It is a Pueblo storyteller holding a child.  Her clay work on her shawl creates a sense of movement in the “cloth”.  The shawl is painted with a complex design using native clay slips.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Maxine Toya”.  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.