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Kinngait
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
2002
August 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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If you're not familiar with Arctic geography, Kinngait is in Nunavut (red circle):
Map of eastern Canada with a circle and arrow in red indicating the loaction of Kinngait, Nunavut.
July 22, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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64.2319ºN, 76.5433ºW

Kinngait, Nunavut

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September 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her studio, captured in the 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut).

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Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her studio, captured in the 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut). Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her studio, captured in the 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut). Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her studio, captured in the 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut).
February 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Observant Owl
Kenojuak Ashevak, 2009, Kinngait, Nunavut 🇨🇦 #CanadianArt
Painting of an owl by Kenojuak Ashevak, 2009, Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada
September 23, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Kinngait drawings at the McMichael reveal breadth of Inuit art
Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait, concentrates not on the walruses and owls so beloved in Southern Canada but on human figures
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March 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Inuk artist Pudlo Pudlat’s ‘airplane.’ Emily Laurent Henderson, the McMichael’s curator of Indigenous art and culture identifies many of the drawings in the just opened McMichael’s exhibit ‘Worlds of Paper: Drawings from Kinngait’ a “form of Inuit futurism.”

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A futurist drawing of an airplane being flown by Kinngait artist Pudlo Pudlat.
March 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Kananginak Pootoogook (1935-2010) photographed by Rosemary Gilliat in Kinngait in 1960. Pootoogook was born in a traditional camp, spending summers in a sod house and winters in an iglu. In 1957 he married Shooyoo and moved to Kinngait. Working with James Houston, he became the first Inuk…
A 1960 colour photograph of Inuk artist and leader Kananginak Pootoogook wearing a parka and looking at the camera. A photograph of Kananginak Pootoogook standing, wearing a parka and hands in pockets and looking at the camera.
June 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Watching the seaplane being unloaded. Photographed at Kinngait in 1960.

📷 Rosemary Gilliat | University of Dalhousie Collections. Barbara Hinds Fonds.
Inuit women, many wearing an amauti, and children watching a sea plane in the inlet.
March 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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July 21, 1947 - 79 yrs ago today - my dad was a 17 yr old steward on the RMS Nascopie when it ran aground on an uncharted reef near Kinngait, NU (known then as Cape Dorset). 🧵
Black and white photo of a small ship stranded in the ice. Photo credit: Histoire Canada
July 22, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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Best scenes for me are Kenojuak and her turntable, spinning vinyl. - 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut) and featuring the renown Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak at work and with her family.

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November 28, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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Absolutely shocked to pass by this little gallery in Auxerre, France, that looks it hasn’t opened in a long time, to see this rare lithograph, 20/50, by the renowned Kinngait Inuk graphic artist Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2001), titled ‘The Outcast.’ The mystery remains how it
Absolutely shocked to pass by this little gallery in Auxerre, France, that looks it hasn’t opened in a long time, to see this rare lithograph, 20/50, by the renowned Kinngait Inuk graphic artist Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2001), titled ‘The Outcast.’ The mystery remains how it got to this little, ‘closed,’ gallery in this small city in France.
September 26, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Kinngait artist Ningiukulu Teevee’s work featured in special exhibition in London

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Print of a black and white bird wearing cowboy boots by Ningiukulu Teevee
January 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Lucy Qinnuayuak (Cape Dorset, 1915-1982?), "Meeting of Birds," stonecut, 1967; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. #art #arte #firstnations #capedorset #kinngait #inuit #stonecut #printmaking #printart #museum #artgallery
July 23, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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The brilliance of Inuk artist Jamasee Pitseolak (b. 1968, Kinngait). Rock Star, Gun in Holster, Sedna Chopper (stone, ivory and animal tooth).

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October 23, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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Inuk artist and photographer Aggeok Pitseolak (1906-1977) in a photo by Rosemary Gilliat in Kinngait in 1960. Aggeok, along with her husband, Peter Pitseolak, broke ground as photographers, developing their own prints in a makeshift darkroom.

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December 13, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Stills from the 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut) and featuring the renown Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak at work and with her family.

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November 27, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Pauojoungie Saggiak (Inuit; Iqaluit, NU, b.1959)
Treasures of the Sea
Kinngait (Cape Dorset), 2016
Lithograph, 57 x 76.2 cm (22 3/8 x 30 in.)
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#InuitArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt #ContemporaryArt #Shells
Lithograph in landscape orientation; collection of brightly colored gastropod shells arranged on dark blue background
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Artist Kananginak Pootoogook (1935-2010) poses for photographer Rosemary Gilliat at Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1960. Pootoogook would become the President of the famous West-Baffin Co-operative.

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A colour slide of Inuk artist Kaninginak Pootoogook, photographed by Rosemary Gilliat in 1960. He is standing, looking at the camera.
April 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Watching the seaplane being unloaded. Photographed at Kinngait in 1960.

📷 Rosemary Gilliat | University of Dalhousie Collections. Barbara Hinds Fonds.
March 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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The Hamlet of Kinngait, in #Nunavut, is hosting it's first-ever clam digging festival. Organizers say the festival will be full of activities, prizes and community spirit.

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Kinngait hosts its first-ever clam digging festival
The Hamlet of Kinngait, in Nunavut, is hosting it's first-ever clam digging festival. Organizers say the festival will be full of activities, prizes and community spirit. Carl Cardinal has more.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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A young turnabalist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her canvas tent studio is, for me, one of the best things the National Film Board of Canada ever recorded: 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait

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A young turnabalist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her canvas tent studio is, for me, one of the best things the National Film Board of Canada ever recorded: 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut) and featuring the renown Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak at work in her tent studio and with her family, spinning vinyl. NFB Archives A young turnabalist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her canvas tent studio is, for me, one of the best things the National Film Board of Canada ever recorded: 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut) and featuring the renown Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak at work in her tent studio and with her family, spinning vinyl. NFB Archives A young turnabalist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her canvas tent studio is, for me, one of the best things the National Film Board of Canada ever recorded: 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut) and featuring the renown Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak at work in her tent studio and with her family, spinning vinyl. NFB Archives
September 27, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Checking out the day’s news and messages in Kinngait (Nunavut) in 1960. The man in the denim has been identified as Joanasie Salomonie, a pioneering figure in Inuit film and television, who worked with the Iqaluit-based Nunatsiakmiut film society.

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A group of people are gathered around a message board reading in Kinngait (Nunavut) in 1960. A colour slide. A young woman and young man are placing or removing a message from the board. A black and white photo.
December 22, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Kinngait, Nunavut, January 2020, another view. #Canada
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March 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Polar bear tracks, sea ice, art-making and sunsets. Still processing everything after two amazing weeks back in Kinngait ❄️
March 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM