Kellypalik Mungitok

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

Collections

 * National Museum of the American Indian,
 * University of Michigan Museum of Art
 * National Gallery of Canada the Canadian Museum of History
 * Museum London
 * University of Victoria Art Collections
 * Brooklyn Museum