Cape Dorset, Nunavut
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| Cape Dorset, Nunavut Kinngait |
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 May 1997 |
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| Country | Canada |
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| Territory | Nunavut |
| Region | Qikiqtaaluk |
| Population (2006) | |
| - Total | 1,236 |
August 2002
August 2002
Cape Dorset (Inuktitut: Kinngait; Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ, ("the hills") is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island[1] near the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. The Inuktitut name of the village means "high mountains".[2]
As of the 2006 census, the population was 1,236 an increase of 7.7% from the 2001 census.[3] The area is serviced by the Cape Dorset Airport.
Since the 1950s, Cape Dorset, which calls itself the "Capital of Inuit Art" has been a center for drawing, printmaking, and carving. Even today, printmaking and carving are the community's main economic activities. Each year, Kinngait Studios issues an annual print collection. Cape Dorset has been hailed as the most artistic community in Canada, with some 22% of the labour force employed in the arts.[4]
Between the years of 1959 and 1974, Cape Dorset artists produced more than 48,000 prints. Well-known artists of Cape Dorset include Pudlo Pudlat and Kenojuak Ashevak. Ashevak's drawings of owls have appeared on Canadian stamps as well as a Canadian quarter. Inuit photographer and author Peter Pitseolak spent several years of his life living in Cape Dorset.
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[edit] Further reading
- Dorais, Louis-Jacques. Kinngaqmiut Uqausingit = The Inuit Language in Cape Dorset N.W.T. = Le Parler Inuit De Cape Dorset T.N.O.. Québec: Association Inuksiutiit katimajiit, Laboratoire d'anthro[ologie, Université Laval, 1975.
- Leroux, Odette, Marion E. Jackson, and Minnie Aodla Freeman. Inuit Women Artists Voices from Cape Dorset. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1994. ISBN 0295973897
- Norton, Derek, and Nigel Reading. Cape Dorset Sculpture. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. ISBN 0295984783
- Nunavut Handbook, Iqaluit 2004 ISBN 0-9736754-0-3
- Pitseolak, Peter, and Dorothy Eber. People from Our Side An Eskimo Life Story in Words and Photographs : an Inuit Record of Seekooseelak, the Land of the People of Cape Dorset, Baffin Island. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975. ISBN 0253343348
- Ryan, Leslie Boyd. Cape Dorset Prints, a Retrospective Fifty Years of Printmaking at the Kinngait Studios. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2007. ISBN 9780764941917
- SchoolNet Digital Collections (Canada). Cape Dorset Inuit art and Inuit cultural perspectives. Ottawa: Industry Canada, 2000.
- Walk, Ansgar. Kenojuak - The Life Story of an Inuit Artist. Manotick: Penumbra Press, 1999. ISBN 0921254954
[edit] External links
- Cape Dorset Artists
- Cape Dorset homepage
- The Cape Dorset Prints from the Library and Archives of Canada
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