Josefa Roybal

Josefa Roybal (dates unknown) sometimes known as Josephine or Josepha, was a 20th-century Native American artist, a San Ildefonso Pueblo painter and potter.

[4] Her "maternal grandfather, was a full-blooded Diné of the Navajo Nation, who had been adopted as an infant into the pueblo.

(Since then, more attention has been paid to the female artists of San Ildefonso Pueblo.

)[2] She sometimes signed her work with an Anglicized version of her name, Josephine,[1] as a convenience for non-Navajo speakers.

[2] One of her paintings, Comanche Dancers, (c. 1930–1939), watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, resides in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.