Reggie Mitchell. Diné — Bitter Water, born for the Salt Clan. Fifth generation. The middle link in the chain: he took his father's knowledge and handed it to his son.
Six generations of one family have worked silver in the Mitchell line, and Reggie Mitchell is the generation in the middle. He learned casting from his father, Eugene Mitchell, a master silversmith — and he taught it to his son, Bronson, who now works as the sixth. That's the quiet importance of a fifth-generation maker: he is the hand the knowledge passes through, the one who both received the old way and made sure it kept going.
We don't have a documented hallmark on record for Reggie under his own name — the family's work runs under the Dark Horse Navajo Jewelry brand rather than an individually cataloged mark — so we won't invent one. His pieces are identified by their cast construction and by that family line. (Hold a marked piece? That's the first-hand detail this directory is built to capture.)
He is Diné — Bitter Water, born for the Salt Clan — named as he gives it — and a fifth-generation silversmith. His father, Eugene Mitchell, was a master of the craft; his son, Bronson Mitchell, is the sixth generation, and together they run Dark Horse Navajo Jewelry. Reggie is the through-line between them: taught by the master, teaching the next. Five generations deep is not a slogan in this family — it's a working shop where the bench is the classroom.
Reggie works in the family's casting tradition — sand and tufa casting, silver and gold poured into carved molds the oldest way. It's the same method the Mitchells work together, father and son, and Reggie is the one who carries it from Eugene's generation forward: the traditional Navajo cast vocabulary — najas, bracelets, bowguards, buckles — built by pouring metal into stone and sand. His signature isn't a single trick of the hand so much as fluency in the whole family method, and the authority to teach it.
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