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Message:: [QUOTE="Taupou, post: 440370, member: 45"]When this type of pottery first came on the market in the late 1970s, it was called "Casas Grandes Revival," since the potters were copying designs from the prehistoric Casas Grandes ruins nearby, and because there was a lot of misinformation about where it was from, and who the potters were. Today it is generally called Mata Ortiz, after the village in northern Chihuahua where it is made.  This is because sellers were leaving off the "Revival" part, and it was often being sold as genuine Casas Grandes from ca. 1200/1400 A.D.  Also, it was determined that none of the potters are Native American, or claim any tribal affiliation.  They are all Mexican, and not related in any way to the original makers of Casas Grandes pottery...so it really wasn't a "revival" in the first place.  In addition, many people spelled it as "Casa Grande," which is a town in Arizona, but again, unrelated to the pottery in question.  So it's best just to call it Mata Ortiz pottery.  The Mexican government considers it contemporary Mexican Art Pottery. Norbeto "Beto" Enriques is listed in the Potters Index of The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz (published 1999) but that's the only reference I've found to him.[/QUOTE]