Wiff Denetdale
Name-card placeholder — hallmark imagery to follow.
Overview
Wiff Denetdale is a Navajo silversmith active since the 1990s, working in both contemporary and traditional directions, with various stones, in silver and gold. That is the full extent of what the record holds — Hougart's entry is brief, and the scan of it is badly damaged.
Collector's caution: The mark in Hougart's entry is unreadable in our scan — the fragment suggests a script mark, but no confident reading is possible until the entry is checked against a physical copy. Until then, no stamp can responsibly be matched to this name from our record alone.
The Mark
"Wiff Denetdale (Navajo) Active sine 1990 • '· [reads 'Active since 1990s'] ootempo,a~ aod trad,eooal; ,arioo, ",""'", ,U,e,, gofd [garbled in scan; reads as 'contemporary and traditional; various stones; silver, gold'] - • ~ a l , {roiptj [mark garbled in scan; fragment suggests a script mark — not readable as printed]"
— Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022), entry at approx. scan line 12988.
The marks as documented in the Hougart corpus: OCR-garbled in the scan (prints "~al, {roiptj", suggesting a script mark); verify at physical source.
References - Hougart, Bille. *Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks*, 5th ed. Schiffer Publishing, 2022. Entry at approx. scan line 12988.
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