Akeeaktashuk, one the first “star” artists promoted by James Houston in the early 1950s, is probably best known for his depictions of stoic, determined hunters, which shaped southern perceptions of “Eskimo” art and “Eskimo” culture. His tragic death in a walrus hunting accident a mere year after his relocation to the High Arctic only reinforced stereotypical notions of the precarious nature of life in the North.