Evelyn M. Vigil, Phan-un-pha-kee (Young Doe)

The revival began with a park volunteer. Around 1975 Lois Wittich Giles set out to find the clays and minerals Pecos potters had used, and the Park Service brought in two Jemez potters of Pecos descent to test them. No pueblo had made glazeware since the 1700s; the Pecos glaze was a lead-based paint that fired to a shine. Vigil experimented for about five years before her pots matched, signing some EMV Pecos, and she and Toledo demonstrated at the site. It was then Pecos National Monument; the panel's park title came only in 1990.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Evelyn M. Vigil, Phan-un-pha-kee (Young Doe) (1921-1995); Juanita T. Toledo, Pha-wa-luh-luh (Ring-Cloud Around the Moon) (1914-1999) Jemez Pueblo Evelyn M. Vigil, a descendant of the last remaining Pecos residents that moved to Jemez Pueblo in 1838, led the revival of Pecos Pueblo style pottery. She spent time at Pecos National Historic Park studying materials and techniques used by the Pecos people. With the aid of Juanita T. Toledo, another Pecos descendant, Evelyn helped to recreate the glazeware that was made there from 1250 to 1700. Official Scenic Historic Marker New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative The New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative was founded in 2005 by members of the New Mexico Women's Forum in a statewide effort to recognize women's contributions to New Mexico history on the state's Official Scenic Historic Markers. The Initiative ensures that women's diverse histories will be remembered and told, and will inspire and provide a guide for future generations. The 2006 Legislature funded the project.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jemez Historic Site — 9.6 mi
  The stone walls of a 1620s mission church standing among the ruins of Gisewa, a Jemez village named for the hot springs beside it.
• Valles Caldera National Preserve — 20 mi
  A crater thirteen miles across, floored with grass, left by an eruption 1.25 million years ago and owned privately for 140 years under a law that called it vacant land.
• Bandelier National Monument — 27 mi
  Rooms carved into soft volcanic tuff in Frijoles Canyon, named for a Swiss scholar who was led there in 1880 by a man from Cochiti Pueblo.
• Fuller Lodge — 29 mi
  The upright-log dining hall of a boys' ranch school, which fed and housed the Manhattan Project after the Army bought the school in 1942.

More markers nearby

• Pueblo of Jémez — steps away
• Colorado Plateau — 7.6 mi
• Vásquez de Coronado's Route — 9.2 mi
• Jémez State Monument — 9.8 mi