Pottery by the "three sisters", Ella Irving, Olive Cottier and Bernice Talbot is simple, elegant and historically significant. During the 1930's the Work progress Admin established a boarding school on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, and hired Bruce Doyle to operate a ceramics program for the students. The three sisters were among his students and reportedly continued producing Pine Ridge Pottery after the program ended at the school. The pottery closed in the ...click for details
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