[1] Emory Sekaquaptewa was born in Hotevilla in the Third Mesa, on the Hopi Reservation of northern Arizona, in 1928.
[5] Among his siblings were Abbott, longtime Tribal Chairman, and Marlene, a political leader and quilt maker.
In 1962 Emory and Wayne relocated the business to the village of Kykotsmovi at Third Mesa on the Hopi Reservation and renamed it Hopicrafts.
The business developed its own designs and style of overlay and successfully competed with the Hopi Silvercraft Guild on Second Mesa.
[8] His nephew Phillip Sekaquaptewa, son of Wayne Sekaquaptewa, was a talented silversmith and skilled at not only Hopi silver overlay technique but an original contemporary master of stone and silver flush inlay.