ANIRNIK RAGEE   (ANINIK; ARNINQNIQ; AINIVIK)

       Born:  November 16, 1935       Female       E7-979
       Resides:  Cape Dorset
       Sculpture, Drawings

           Anirnik is the wife of sculptor and graphic artist Kuppapik Ragee, but    
       herself came from a family of artists.  Her parents were the late Jamasie and 
       Angotigolu Teevee of Cape Dorset, who were both involved in the media of      
       drawing, printmaking, sculpting.  Her sisters Parnee Peter and Nicotai        
       Simigak, and her adopted brother Simeonie Teevee are Cape Dorset sculptors.   
                                                                                     

           Anirnik drew for only a brief period, while she still lived in the camps  
       in the Dorset area.  While still living in the camps, she became involved in  
       the sewing project started by Alma Houston in the late 1950s.  By the early   
       1960s, she and her family had settled permanently in Cape Dorset.             

       EXHIBITIONS:

       March 1988                       Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture
                                                   Arctic Inuit Art Gallery                          
                                                   Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

       October 1988                     Inuit Legends in Stone
                                                   Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec                   
                                                   Montreal, Quebec
                                                   (illustrated brochure)

       Oct - Nov 1990                  A Woman's Vision
                                                   Art Space Gallery                                 
                                                   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

       December 1990                New Miniature Sculpture
                                                   Gallery Phillip                                   
                                                   Don Mills, Ontario

       July 1991                           Art Inuit
                                                   Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                   at Chapelle de la Visitation                      
                                                   Thonon, France

       February 1993                   Kunstwerke der Inuit
                                                   Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein                  
                                                   in conjunction with the annual meeting            
                                                   of the Association of Canadian Studies            
                                                   at the Hotel am Badersee                          
                                                   Grainau, Germany

       March - June 1993            Strange Scenes: Early Cape Dorset Drawings
                                                   McMichael Canadian Collection                     
                                                   Kleinberg, Ontario

       September 1995               Sedna: Spirit of the Sea
                                                   Feheley Fine Arts                                 
                                                   Toronto, Ontario

       November - Dec 1995      Miniaturen
                                                   Inuit Galerie                                     
                                                   Mannheim, Germany
                                                   (brochure)

       COLLECTIONS:

       Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec   
       Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.A.   
       Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan        

       SELECTED REFERENCES:

       Blodgett, Jean and Susan Gustavison               
           STRANGE SCENES:  EARLY CAPE DORSET DRAWINGS.  Kleinburg, Ont.:
           McMichael Canadian Collection, 1993.


      (c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995