"Phillip Sekaquaptewa is a Hopi artist and silversmith in Hopi silver overlay and stone inlay, featuring the lapidary genres of commesso and intarsia. Sekaquaptewa uses colorful stones and shell for his Hopi silver overlay, not only plain silver decorated with chisel strokes on black oxide surfaces, a Hopi-signature technique known as matting.He was born in 1956 in a traditional Hopi village on Second Mesa on the Hopi Reservation, located in Northern Arizona."@en . . "Phillip Sekaquaptewa"@en . . .