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Leister (fish spear), Peenamin McKenzie School
Innu Nation 2005

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Innu birch bark torch and uashuakanashku (leister) used for night fishing in the Pakut-shipu area (St. Augustin, Quebec), ca. 1947-57 (photo William F. Stiles, courtesy, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution).

Innu birch bark torch and uashuakanashk^u (leister) used for night fishing in the Pakut-shipu area (St. Augustin, Quebec), ca. 1947-57 (photo William F. Stiles, courtesy, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution).