Kelly Etidloie
Inuit
Sun Bathing
Walrus
8" L
x 4" H
Born: April 26, 1966
Resides: Cape Dorset
Kellypalik (Kelly) is the
son of the well-known Cape Dorset artists Etidlooie and Kingmeata.
Cape Dorset is located north
of Hudson Bay on the southwest tip of Baffin Island, well above
the treeline and just south of the Arctic Circle.
The Inuit inhabitants have
always called the area Kinngait (pronounced king-ite), meaning
"the place of hills," but it was named Cape Dorset
in 1631 by the British explorer Captain Luke Foxe, who mapped
the region during his unsuccessful search for the Northwest Passage;
he named it in honour of the Earl of Dorset, who had sponsored
the expedition.
Today, Cape Dorset is a modern
community of nearly fourteen hundred inhabitants in the newly
created Canadian territory of Nunavut.