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SAMUALIE, Keeleemeeoomee
- Born
- Qinqu Camp, Nunavut, 1919
- Died
- ?, 1983
- Biography synopsis
- Keeleemeeoomee Samualie was an Inuit artist born in Qinqi Camp, near Markham Bay, Nunavut. She was married to Inuit artist Samuellie Tunnillie and was the sister of artists Anna Kingwatsiak (1911-1971), Tye Adla (1936-1990), Iyola and Mikigak Kingwatsiak. Samualie lived and worked in Cape Dorest, Nunavut. Her practice was based on drawings which focused on Inuit life, many of which were produced by the West Baffin Island Print Cooperative.
- Media used
- Drawing
- Printmaking
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Blodgett, Jean. In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking Kleinburg, Ont.: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1991
- Crandall, Richard C. Inuit Art: A History Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2000
- Eber, Dorothy Harley. When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic McGill Queen's University Press, 1989
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Inuit Art Bibliography Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1992
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Cape Dorset Graphics. [Annual] Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1961-1983
