In Young Woman, the mother and child, so recognizably part of everyday Inuit life, are here transformed into a monumental graphic image. The female figure rises almost the full height of the sheet, her long body and sweeping amautiq forming a single, slender column. Then comes the delightful surprise: from the deep safety of her amaut (hood) a child's cherubic face suddenly appears.

While the image of a woman with a child peering from the hood of her amautiq would become one of the great recurring subjects of Inuit art, Young Woman preserves the subject amongst its earliest appearances, before it had acquired its later familiarity, offering one of its first graphic incarnations.

Shekoaloak died before the release of the inaugural Kinngait print collection and never witnessed the extraordinary afterlife of the image he helped establish.