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