Mina Napartuk (1913 – 2001) was a Canadian Inuk artist known for her fabric and fur crafts, as well as her management of the women's craft shop in Kuujjuarapik.
[1] Napartuk was born in 1913 in Kuujjuarapik, Quebec.
[2] She trained in the traditional arts of working with fur, skins, and fabric to create dolls, clothing (including kamiks), and wall-hangings known as akinnamiutak.
[2][1] Starting in the 1980s Napartuk managed the women's craftshop in Kuujjuarapik which focused on traditional crafts of the area.
[2] Selected exhibitions that Napartuk's work has appeared in include Group Show of Wallhangings at the Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art; Things Made by Inuit at La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec; and Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada at the National Museum of Man, Ottawa.