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==Visual art== * In 1908, [[Frank Wilbert Stokes]] painted a mural on the North Wall of the Eskimo Hall of the [[American Museum of Natural History]] depicting "the artist’s conception of the Eskimo myth of the 'Sun and the Moon'". {{multiple image | align = center | width = 250px | image1 = Guide leaflet (1901) (14579420060).jpg | image2 = The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17539257223).jpg | footer = [[Frank Wilbert Stokes]]'s mural }} * [[Victoria Mamnguqsualuk]] did multiple [[linocut]] woodcuts depicting vignettes from this story: ** {{cite AV media |date=1982 |title=Brother Moon and Sister Sun |url=https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/18740/}} ** {{cite AV media |date=2001 |title=Sisters, Going Up |url=https://www.waddingtons.ca/auction/inuit-art-sculptures-graphics-mar-23-2023/gallery/lot/104/}}{{notetag|Despite its name, the picture depicts a brother and sister. The artist's granddaughter believes this title to be a mistranslation of an Inuktitut title and suggests that a more correct title would be ''Siblings, Going Up''.{{sfn|Kabloona|2021}}}} * {{cite AV media |people=Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona |date=2021 |title=Malina |location= |publisher= |id= |url=https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iaq-online/how-i-choose-to-carry-on-my-family-s-artistic-legacy}}<br> The artist describes it as a feminist reimagining of the story. It depicts the Sun goddess alone and unharmed, lighting a {{lang|iu|[[qulliq]]}} with a {{lang|iu|taqqut}}.
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