Osuitok Ipeelee RCA (Inuktitut: ᐅᓱᐃᑐ ᐃᐱᓕ,[1] 23 September 1923 - 2005[2]) was an Inuk sculptor who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.
Ohotok also taught his son how to carve ivory, and as early as the age of thirteen Osuitok began to sculpt.
The artist's earliest extant works are ivory miniatures of hunting equipment, typical of the historic period of Inuit art, that date from the 1940s.
The idea of a Cape Dorset printmaking program developed from a winter 1957 conversation between Houston and Ipeelee.
As Houston recalled: Osuitok Ipeelee sat near me one evening studying the sailor-head trademarks on a number of identical cigarette packages.