Deborah Silversmith

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Overview

Deborah Silversmith (born 1957) is a Navajo silversmith who studied with her grandfather Kenneth Begay — and still uses some of his old tools.

Her documented mark is DEBBIE above a hogan. A note on the name: our scan prints the headword as 'Mil Deborah Silversmith', but the entry's own text calls her Debbie and her mark reads DEBBIE, so we record her as Deborah Silversmith and treat the stray 'Mil' as a scan artifact. The entry adds a further identification — 'This is D,bb;, Ale,aod,o' — that is too garbled in our scan to record, so we leave it unread rather than guess.

The Mark

"Mil Deborah Silversmith (1957-; Navajo). Studied with her grandfather Kenneth Begay; uses some of his old tools. This is D,bb;, Ale,aod,o [garbled in our scan]. Mark: DEBBIE (above a hogan)"

— Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022), approx. p. ~26243.

The mark as documented in the Hougart corpus: DEBBIE (above a hogan).

References

• Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. Schiffer Publishing, 2022. Entry approx. p. ~26243.

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