Cochiti Pueblo

Cochiti is a Keresan-speaking Rio Grande pueblo best known for its pottery and storyteller figures, with a parallel tradition of beadwork and silver adornment. Its makers share the Rio Grande vocabulary of heishi and inlay with neighbouring Kewa, working shell, turquoise, and silver into strung and set pieces.

That Rio Grande lineage runs deep. Heishi — among the oldest forms of adornment in the Southwest — is hand-rolled from shell and stone and ground smooth strand by strand, while bezel-set turquoise and stone-on-shell inlay carry the warm, earthen palette shared with neighbouring Kewa and Santo Domingo work. A Cochiti piece, where its provenance is clear, rewards the same close looking as the pueblo's celebrated pottery: restraint, balance, nothing superfluous.

We list Cochiti work here when its provenance is clear. The selection is small and chosen for quality over volume.