Shequak
Settlement: Cape Dorset / Kinngait
(1923-1961) — E7-816
mother of Mayureak Ashoona ----------- Sheouak alternate date of death is 1918 Inuit, Cape Dorset, Nunavut (1923-1961) Pot Spirits, 1960 stencil on paper Glenbow Museum Collection; Purchased, 1961 61.25.63 Sheouak never became as famous as other Cape Dorset artists because she died at the age of 38, only a year after her debut with an impressive eight prints in the catalogued collection in editions of 50. This is a favourite with collectors, a three-colour image of the spirits inhabiting her cooking pots. The print was translated from her drawing by Lukta Qiatsuk (b. 1928), one of the finest and most prolific of Cape Dorset's artist-printmakers.
