About the Artist

"Mark Chee was an important Navajo silversmith in the mid 20th century. He is noted for his heavy silver stampwork jewlery with set stones. However, he also made "remarkably beautiful" sets of silver flatware. Chee worked as a benchsmith for Frank Patania and Al Packard in Santa Fe." The above was excerpted from American Indian Jewelry I 1200 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaaf.