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Kenojuak Ashevak, (''Inuktitut:'' ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ ''Qinnuajuaq Aasivak'', October 3, 1927 – January 8, 2013) was a Canadian artist. She is regarded as one of the most notable Canadian pioneers of modern Inuit art. ==Life== Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo in an Inuit camp, Ikirasaq, at the southern coast of Baffin Island. Her father, Ushuakjuk, an Inuit hunter and fur trader, and her mother, Silaqqi,〔Odette Leroux, (Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit ), 1991, Steinbrueck Native Gallery. Accessed 9 January 2013.〕 named Kenojuak after Silaqqi's deceased father. According to this Inuit naming tradition, the love and respect that had been accorded to her during her lifetime would now pass on to their daughter.〔, Native American Rhymes, Rhodes Educational Publications, 2005. Accessed 8 January 2013.〕 Kenojuak also had a brother and a sister. Kenojuak remembered Ushuakjuk as "a kind and benevolent man". Her father, a respected shaman, "had more knowledge than average mortals, and he would help all the Inuit people." According to Kenojuak, her father believed he could predict weather, predict good hunting seasons and even turn into a walrus; he also had the ability "to make fish swarm at the surface so it was easier to fish."〔Fraser, (Kenojuak ), Famous Artist Quest Project, Ecole Whitehorse Elementary School, 2004. Accessed 9 January 2013.〕 Her father had come into conflict with Christian converts, and some enemies assassinated him in a hunting camp in 1933, when she was only six.〔〔Liz Sonneborn, ''(A to Z of American Indian Women ).'' pp. 112-114. ISBN 1438107889.〕 After her father's murder, Kenojuak moved with her widowed mother Silaqqi and the rest of the family to the home of Silaqqi's mother, Koweesa, who taught her traditional crafts, including the repair of sealskins for trade with the Hudson's Bay Company and how to make waterproof clothes sewn with caribou sinew. When she was 19, her mother, Silaqqi, and stepfather, Takpaugni, arranged for her to marry Johnniebo Ashevak (1923–1972), a local Inuit hunter. Kenojuak was reluctant, she said, even playfully throwing pebbles at him when he would approach her.〔P. Cash, (Kenojuak Ashevak, Artiste inuite ), ''FSL French Biographies of Famous Canadians'', 2006, Scruffy Plume Press. Accessed 9 January 2013.〕 In time, however, she came to love him for his kindness and gentleness, a man who developed artistic talents in his own right and who sometimes collaborated with her on projects; the National Gallery of Canada exhibits two of Johnniebo's works, ''Taleelayo with Sea Bird'' (1965) and ''Hare Spirits'' (1960).〔(Johnniebo Ashevak, 1923 - 1972 ), 2013. Accessed 8 January 2013.〕 During this time and also later on, many of her children and grandchildren succumbed to disease, as eventually also did her husband of 26 years. Three daughters of Kenojuak, Mary, Elisapee Qiqituk, and Aggeok died in childhood, and three sons, Jamasie, her adopted son Ashevak, and Kadlarjuk and Qiqituk. The latter two were adopted at birth by another family, an Inuit custom that is still a common practice today.〔〔Walker, Ansgar, ''Kenojuak: an Inuit artit's life story'', Penumbra Press, 1999, pp. 218-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenojuak Ashevak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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