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Canadian Inuk artist

Pitseolak AshoonaCM RCA (c. 1904 – May 28, 1983^[1]) was an Inuk Canadian artist admired for her prolific body of work.

She was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Biography

Pitseolak was born to Timungiak and Oootochie on Nottingham Island in the Northwest Territories, now Nunavut. Her name means "sea pigeon" in Inuktitut.^[1][2] She grew up in the traditional life of her people, with food dependent on hunting and gathering.

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Her culture relied on angakuit.

In 1922 (or 1923), Pitseolak married Ashoona, a hunter, in the Foxe Peninsula of Baffin Island.^[3] They had 17 children, though only six (Namoonie, Qaqaq, Kumwartok, Kiugak, Napachie, and Ottochie) lived with Pitseolak until adulthood.

Some died in childhood, and others were adopted out according to custom, and raised by other Inuit families.^[4]

After her husband died at the age of 40 from a viral