Kellypalik Mungitok (also known as Mungitok Kellypalik, Mungituk, Mangitak, Mangitak Qillipalik, or Mungitok Killipalik) (1940–?) was an Inuit printmaker from

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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.

Collections

* National Museum of the American Indian, * University of Michigan Museum of Art * National Gallery of Canada the Canadian Museum of History *

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* University of Victoria Art Collections *

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References

1940 births People from Kinngait Artists from Nunavut Inuit from Nunavut Inuit sculptors Inuit printmakers 20th-century Canadian sculptors 20th-century Canadian printmakers Canadian male sculptors Year of death missing 20th-century Canadian male artists {{NorthAm-native-bio-stub