Lucy Meeko (1929-2004) was an Inuit artist known for her multidisciplinary work in sculpture, printmaking, basketry and sewing. Meeko was born in

Kuujjuaraapik Kuujjuarapik (also spelled Kuujjuaraapik; iu, ᑰᔾᔪᐊᕌᐱᒃ ''little great river'') is the southernmost northern village (Inuit community) at the mouth of the Great Whale River (french: Grande Rivière de la Baleine) on the coast of H ...

, Quebec. Her career as a sculptor began in the 1950s; in the 1970s, together with her husband Noah, she created engravings for the Kuujjuarapic Cooperative. Meeko's work was featured in ''Keeping our Stories Alive: The Sculpture of Canada's Inuit'' along with the work of Ovilu Tunnillie and

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. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the

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, the

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, the Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and the

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, Montreal. Meeko died in 2004 from smoke inhalation, while attempting to rescue her husband Noah from a house fire in Kuujjuaraapik.

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