Leo Martinez — Navajo Silversmith

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Leo Martinez is a Navajo silversmith active in the 1970s. No techniques, training history, or additional biographical details appear in the available source record beyond the mark and active decade.

Note: Mark Martinez (born 1961, Zuni) — who works in channel inlay and shares a stamp with his wife Huberta Martinez — is a distinct artist documented separately in the corpus and is not related to Leo Martinez based on available information.

The Mark

"LEO •" (name with dot mark)

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

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References

Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. Schiffer Publishing, 2022.