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Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook found dead in Ottawa

Prominent Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook has been identified as the woman whose body was found in Ottawa's Rideau River earlier this week.

Officials with the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in her hometown, Cape Dorset, Nunavut, confirmed the death of the chalk-and-ink artist, who rose to prominence when she won the Sobey Award in 2006.

Pootoogook, 47, had been living in Ottawa.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/annie-pootoogook-obit-1.3776525

 

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