Allison Snowhawk Lee is a Navajo silversmith born on the Navajo reservation. He first learned silversmithing in school at the age of 12. 

In summers of high school years he worked at Gallup silver shops. He started by sweeping floors but soon became acquainted with the top silversmith, from whom he learned his techniques. Each summer he find work in a different shop, learning from each master. Now he is the master and his shop employs high school apprentices.

He has won many honors in many in seven different states. 

Allison uses silver or occasionally 14 karat gold, and sets it with coral, turquoise, or other semi-precious stones such as coral or turquoise. 

Please check back this summer, when we hope to have pictures available of Allison Snowhawk Lee's work at the Robert Dean Collection