Eliyakota Samualie
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| birth_place = Kinngait, Northwest Territories, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|11| |1939|5|9}}
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Eliyakota Samualie (May 9, 1939 – November 1987){{Cite web|title=Eliyakota Samualie|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/eliyakota-samualie|access-date=2021-01-20|website=www.gallery.ca|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Crandall|first=Richard C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M4p8ZrkbSCkC&dq=%22Eliyakota+Samualie%22&pg=PA287|title=Inuit Art: A History|date=2000|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0711-8|location=|pages=287|language=en}} was a Canadian Inuk graphic artist and sculptor.{{Cite book|last1=Heller|first1=Jules|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReZkAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Eliyakota+Samualie%22&pg=PT1613|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|last2=Heller|first2=Nancy G.|date=2013-12-19|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63889-4|language=en}}
Early life and education
Samualie was born near Cape Dorset. Her father died when she was young, and she was raised by her maternal grandparents.
Career
Samualie began drawing in the 1960s. The imagery in her work frequently included bird forms.
Her work is held in several museums worldwide, including the National Gallery of Canada,{{Cite web|title=Composition of Human Mask and Birds|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/composition-of-human-mask-and-birds|access-date=2021-01-20|website=www.gallery.ca|language=en}} the Cape Breton University Art Gallery Collection,{{Cite web|title=Cape Breton University: Object: Kanayou and Timiat [1998.09.08.A]|url=http://64.15.147.38/Detail/objects/843|access-date=2021-01-20|website=64.15.147.38}} the University of Delaware,{{Cite web|title=Reciprocity {{!}} Indigenous Art and Arctic Ecology|url=https://sites.udel.edu/arcticartecology/reciprocity/|access-date=2021-01-20|language=en-US}} the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Art Gallery of Toronto, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.{{Cite web|title=Exchange: King Eider|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/43550/view|access-date=2021-01-20|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}}
Personal life
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Category:Artists from Kinngait
Category:20th-century Canadian women artists
Category:Canadian women sculptors
Category:Canadian bird artists
Category:20th-century Canadian sculptors
Category:20th-century Inuit artists
Category:20th-century Inuit women
Category:Canadian Inuit artists