Teme Silversmiths

Teme Silversmith

Jerry Cowboy
Navajo Silversmith

Jerry Cowboy

Jerry was taught silversmithing by Louise and Frank Cowboy. He started learning the art of silversmithing at age ten. Jerry has been silversmithing for over forty three years. Jerry's specialty is how he incorporates modern non-traditional silversmithing techniques into traditional Navajo style of silversmithing.

Jerry can create jewelry by sand casting and can inlay stones into jewelry. Jerry likes to make one of kind pieces of jewelry. His clans are the "Edge Water People" and "Sleep Rock People".

Jimmy Brown
Navajo Silversmith

Jimmy Brown

Jimmy self-taught himself silversmithing by watching other silversmiths create pieces of jewelry. He started silversmithing in 1995. Jimmy is an Army veteran of 14 years. Jimmy's specialty in silversmithing is the accurate stamping technique. The technique involves hammering a cut out stamp onto a piece of silver to create different designs.

Jimmy is an avid sand caster. The designs he uses are the traditional style of Navajo silversmithing techniques of stamping, bump outs, and cut outs. His clans are the "Edge Water People" and "Red Running into the Water People".

Christopher Tom
Navajo Silversmith

Christopher Tom

Chris specializes in making contemporary and traditional Navajo style jewelry. Chris learned to silversmith under the guidance of both his mother and father who were silversmiths. He started out as a stone cutter before he learned how to silversmith. Chris can inlay stones and tufa cast.

Chris has been creating Navajo style jewelry for the last seventeen years. Chris is also known for his "Miss Teen Princess" pageant crowns two of which were commissioned by The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and one by Chuska Boarding School for the "Chuska Boarding School Princess". His clans are the "Black Streak People" and the "Salt People."