Orville Tsinnie

Orville Tsinnie, who has won awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market, a festival for jewelry artists held every August, is an artist who specializes in hammerwork, where he creates molds by striking blocks of silver with a hammer. . Each piece has subtle changes and is characterized by a sense of warmth, but he creates jewelry with precise curves and no irregularities that make it hard to believe that he is hitting them with a hammer.