Kellypalik Mungitok (also known as Mungitok Kellypalik, Mungituk, Mangitak, Mangitak Qillipalik, or Mungitok Killipalik)[1][2][3] (1940–?) was an Inuk printmaker from Cape Dorset.[4]
As a child, Mungitok learned to hunt from his father, Oshutsiaq Pudlat, a lay minister.[3] His paternal grandmother was a shaman.[3] Around 1958, he and his parents moved to Cape Dorset.[3]
Career
He was known for his prints, but also worked in sculpture.[5][6] One of his best-known prints, Man Carried to the Moon, depicts birds carrying a smiling man into the air.[7][8][9]
