A collector with extensive experience in tribal names has provided an alternative spelling of the artist’s name - Napowhatuck.

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It appears that a sculpture (“Man with Whip”) by this artist was sold at auction with the source cited as Gjoa Haven, an Inuit community on King William Island, above the arctic circle, in north central Canada.