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Kananginak Pootoogook
Inuk artist
Kananginak Pootoogook | |
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Kananginak Pootoogook in 1980 | |
| Born | 1935 Ikerasak, Nunavut |
| Died | November 23, 2010(2010-11-23) (aged 75) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Known for | sculptor, printmaker |
| Style | Inuit art |
| Awards | Indspire Award 2010 |
| Elected | Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 1980 |
Kananginak PootoogookRCA (1 January 1935 – 23 November 2010) was an Inuksculptor and printmaker who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in Canada.
He died as a result of complications related to surgery for lung cancer.[1]
Biography
Pootoogook was born at a traditional Inuit camp called Ikerasak, near Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories (now Kinngait, Nunavut) to Josephie (Eegyvudluk) Pootoogook,[2] leader of the camp, and Sarah Ningeokuluk.
The family lived a traditional lifestyle hunting and trapping while living in an iglu in the winter and a sod house in the summer and did not move into their fi