Kellypalik Mungitok


Kellypalik Mungitok was an Inuk printmaker from Cape Dorset.

Early life

As a child, Mungitok learned to hunt from his father, Oshutsiaq Pudlat, a lay minister. His paternal grandmother was a shaman. Around 1958, he and his parents moved to Cape Dorset.

Career

He was known for his prints, but also worked in sculpture. One of his best-known prints, Man Carried to the Moon, depicts birds carrying a smiling man into the air.
Mungitok was married.

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