About Mina Napartuk
Lived 1949 – 2001 (aged 51–52). Mina Napartuk was a Canadian textile artist.
Mina Napartuk (1913 – 2001) was a Canadian Inuk artist known for her fabric and fur crafts, as well as her management of the women's craft shop in Kuujjuarapik.
Biography Napartuk was born in 1913 in Kuujjuarapik, Quebec. She trained in the traditional arts of working with fur, skins, and fabric to create dolls, clothing (including kamiks), and wall-hangings known as akinnamiutak.
She has participated in workshops in Montreal and Toronto.
Napartuk died in 2001 in Umiujaq.
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Who was Mina Napartuk?
Canadian Inuit artist
When was Mina Napartuk born?
Mina Napartuk was born in 1949 in Kuujjuarapik.
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Mina Napartuk died in 2001 in Umiujaq.
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Mina Napartuk was a textile artist.
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Mina Napartuk was Canadian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Mina Napartuk. https://biography.guide/mina-napartuk/
MLA: "Mina Napartuk." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/mina-napartuk/.
Chicago: "Mina Napartuk." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/mina-napartuk/.
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