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Kiakshuk
Inuit artist from Canada
Kiakshuk | |
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Kiakshuk photographed by Rosemary Gilliat in in Cape Dorset, Nunavut | |
| Born | Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Died | May 3, () (aged&#;79–80) |
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Kiakshuk ( – May 3, ) was a Canadian Inuit artist who worked both in sculpture and printmaking.[1] Kiakshuk began printmaking in his seventies and, is most commonly praised for creating “real Eskimo pictures” that relate traditional Inuit life and mythology.[2]
Personal life
Kiakshuk was born in in the north of Baffin Island in Nunavut and moved with his family to the south of Baffin Island to Cape Dorset around [3] Prior to creating artwork, he earned his living as a hunter.[4]
In , Kiakshuk had a dispute with Ohotok, the husband of both of his sisters Ekateelik and Napatchies.
Ohotok promised Kiakshuk the hand of his own sister, Mary, but since Mary was already marrie