Kumakuluk Saggiak

Kumakuluk Saggiak is a sculptor from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU. Born in 1944 to artists Saggiak and Lizzie Saggiak, little is known about Kumakuluk’s life. He was among several Indigenous artists who were commissioned to create work for the House of Commons building in 1978, when James Jerome, Speaker of the House of Commons, initiated the Indigenous Peoples Sculpture Program. Saggiak’s work, Untitled (1990) is part of one of the building’s six tympanums, decoratively carved panels placed over doorways in the House of Commons Centre Block foyer. Saggiak’s works have not yet been shown at ULAG.