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Napachie was born in 1938 at Sako, a small camp on south Baffin Island, the only daughter of well-known artist Pitseolak Ashoona. She began to draw in the late 1950's while living at Keakto, a camp near Cape Dorset. Several people living at the camp, including her mother and Kenojuak Ashevak had already begun to draw, encouraged by James Houston. For all but a few years in the early 1970's, she drew consistently. In the mid-1970's she experimented with mixed media works using coloured pencil and black felt pen in conjunction with acrylic paints. Napachies' work in recent years focused on local history and stories about people and events in the Cape Dorset area, often with accompanying text to explain the circumstances. She thought of herself in her maturing years as an historian and chronicler of local oral history. She died in December, 2002, of cancer. (Information from Dorset Fine Arts.)

Born: 1938
Died: 2002