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Kiakshuk
Inuit artist from Canada
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Kiakshuk photographed by Rosemary Gilliat in 1960 in Cape Dorset, Nunavut | |
| Born | 1886 Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Died | May 3, 1966(1966-05-03) (aged 79–80) |
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Kiakshuk (1886 – May 3, 1966) 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 1886 in the north of Baffin Island in Nunavut and moved with his family to the south of Baffin Island to Cape Dorset around 1900.[3] Prior to creating artwork, he earned his living as a hunter.[4]
In 1920, Kiakshuk had a dispute with Ohotok, the husband of both of his sisters Ekateelik and Napatchies.
Ohotok promised Kiakshuk the hand of his own