Eileen Eustace

Biography by Mateo James

Name-card for Eileen Eustace (Cochiti silversmith) — T.Skies Silversmith Directory

Cochiti Pueblo · documented in the T.Skies hallmark reference library

Eileen Eustace is a Cochiti Pueblo silversmith working in fabricated work and carved turquoise. Our reference library records no birth year or active-period start.

Eileen Eustace is part of the extended Eustace silversmithing family. The Hougart entry for this cluster places her alongside Felicita Eustace (wife of Ben Eustace) and Christine Eustace among the Eustace family documented in the Zuni-Cochiti cross-pueblo silversmithing record.

Fabricated work builds jewelry from flat sheet and wire stock rather than casting. Carved turquoise shapes the stone into relief forms.

The Mark

"E E; E E (may be offset)" — Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022).

References

  • Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. Washington, DC: BilleHougartBooks, 2022.

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Related family: Felicita Eustace (Cochiti Eustace lineage)

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