Musk Ox

Kiawak Ashoona was a Canadian Inuit artist from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, working primarily in stone sculpture and printmaking during the postwar era. His carved figures, rendered in soapstone and other local materials, depicted Arctic wildlife and human forms with a directness and formal clarity that established him as a central figure in the Cape Dorset art movement. Ashoona's work was integral to the development of Inuit contemporary art in the mid-twentieth century.