[4] Namingha stated that she learned to create pottery by watching her mother work.

[1] Namingha's work is part of the Nampeyo family tradition of pottery making.

[3] The traditional meanings of the designs however, had been lost by the time Namingha's mother was incorporating these patterns and symbols.

[3] Black paint for the decorations is made from the Rocky Mountain bee plant and yellow rock for the reddish color in the designs.

[6] She fired her pottery in the ground, first burning wood into charcoal and then laying around 8 to 10 pots on top of the coal and added sheep dung.