NAPATCHIE NOAH   (NEPATCHIE; NAPATCHEE)

       Born:  February 2, 1926       Male       E7-842
       Resides:  Iqaluit
       Sculpture

       Napatchie tends to carve small-sized whale pieces.  His father was the late   
       sculptor Noah Nuna.  His brothers Tommy Tukpanie Sr. and Peter Salomonie are  
       both carvers in Iqaluit.                                                      

       EXHIBITIONS:

       Oct - Nov 1974                  Eskimo Art
                                                   Queens Museum                                     
                                                   Flushing, New York, U.S.A.
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       Oct - Nov 1978                  Eskimo Art
                                                   Embankment Gallery                                
                                                   London, England
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       May 1990                           Early and Contemporary Sculpture and Prints
                                                   by Well-Known Inuit Artists                       
                                                   Arctic Artistry                                   
                                                   Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.

       February - March 1991     Taste Of The Wild
                                                   Orca Aart                                         
                                                   Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

       February - April 1991       Art Inuit
                                                   Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                   at Galerie Humbert                                
                                                   Nantes, France

       April - May 1991                Art Inuit
                                                   Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                   at Palais de l'Europe                             
                                                   Le Touquet, France

       May - June 1991                Art Inuit
                                                   Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                   at La Halle aux Bles                              
                                                   Saint Malo, France


       COLLECTIONS:

       Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec       
       Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.              
       Eskimo Museum, Churchill, Manitoba                     
       Sean Desmond Art Gallery, Armonk, New York, U.S.A.           

       SELECTED REFERENCES:

       Brandson, Lorraine E.                             
           CARVED FROM THE LAND:  The Eskimo Museum Collection.  Churchill,
           Man.: Diocese of Churchill Hudson Bay, 1994.

       Walrus Imports                                    
           CATALOGUE OF INUIT ART.  Kennebunkport, Maine: Walrus Imports,
           1974.