Standard accounts of the Indian arts and crafts movement have emphasized the roles played by J. Walter Fewkes, Edgar Hewett, Kenneth Chapman, and John Collier. Around 1905, a renegade female teacher at San Ildefonso Day School first encouraged Crescencio Martinez to paint his dance ceremonials. This was almost a decade before Edgar Hewett met Martinez. DeHuff brought seven boys from the Santa Fe Indian School to her house in the afternoons to paint.
White women seem to have taken an even greater part in promoting Indian pottery.
1935 Photo by T. Harmon Parkhurst, Courtesy Museum of New Mexico Neg. Except for Austin, who died in 1934, all these women served for more than twenty years on the IAF Board. White served for forty years. In 1932, the BIA hired Dorothy Dunn to teach Indian art and Mabel Morrow to instruct in Indian crafts at the Santa Fe Indian School. Under Dunn's direction from 1932 to 1937, the Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School became the centerpiece of the John Collier administration's commitment to Indian arts and a model for other Indian schools across the country.