Ed Kabotie — Artist and Silversmith

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Overview

Ed Kabotie is a Hopi/Santa Clara artist, musician, and silversmith working in overlay. He is the son of Michael Kabotie (Lomawywesa) and the grandson of Fred Kabotie, the renowned Hopi artist and teacher who shaped generations of Hopi silversmithing. His mark is a thunder cloud motif [OCR: ". b o v e , coojo;oed'" suggests elements above and conjoined around the cloud — exact configuration OCR-degraded]. No birth year is recorded in the Hougart corpus entry.

Birth year not recorded in the Hougart corpus entry; no death year given. Entry treated as for a living or recent artist; extra care taken for accuracy.

The Mark

"Ed Kabotie (Hopi/Santa Clara). Artist, musician and silversmith. Overlay. Son of Michael Kabotie. Mark: Thunder cloud . b o v e , coojo;oed' Michael Kabotie (Lomawywesa) (1942-2009; Hopi). Active 1960s-2009. Overlay; cast work; silver, gold; stone sets. Artist, poet and silversmith, Michael Kabotie was the son of Fred Kabotie, noted Hopi artist and teacher. One of his ear- ly instructors in the overlay style was Wallie Sekayumptewa. He was an innovator in American Indian arts, as a painter and as a silversmith. He studied silver smithing in his father's high school class.2 Later, he became a t"

— Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022), approx. p. ~17729.

The mark as documented in the Hougart corpus: Thunder cloud [OCR: ". b o v e , coojo;oed'" suggests elements above and conjoined around the cloud motif].

Family Links

• Son of Michael Kabotie (Lomawywesa). See Michael Kabotie.
• Grandson of Fred Kabotie (via Michael Kabotie). See Fred Kabotie.

References

• Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. Schiffer Publishing, 2022. Entry approx. p. ~17729.

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