Martha Ipiksaut

(c.1918 - after 1960)
of Hall Beach.
Wife of Joanasie Qayaqjuaq.
Youngest daughter of Tabitia Taututtiaq and Qillaq.
Biological child of George Cleveland.
Disc Number E5-460

She married Joanasie/Joanasi Qayaqjuaq (aka Qayaarjuaq, Kayardjuar, Kayakjuar, Kayakjuak, Kaydjuar, Kajardyark. Disc Number: E5-459.) Qayaqjuaq was born about 1917-18, the son of Sukuluk Nangmalik and Naktaan (Naktaat). After his mother died and his father remarried, Qayaqjuaq was sent to live with his father's family in the high arctic north of Igloolik where he spent about ten years before returning to Repulse Bay as a young man to marry Martha Ipiksaut.

Martha Ipiksaut grew up in Repulse Bay and spent time with her biological grandfather George Cleveland as well as the other HBC Clerks such as Felix Conrad and Archie W. Hunter. She eventually moved to Hall Beach and worked as an artist.

Apphia Agalakti Awa makes a few references to Ipiksaut, her husband Qayaarjuaq (Awa's brother-in-law) and their children in Nancy Wachowich's book Saqiyuq: Stores from the Lives of Three Inuit Women, while on a very long journey to Igloolik from Arctic Bay in the 1940s.

Martha Ipiksaut and Qayaqjuaq had eleven children.

 

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