Tipatshimuna 
Description:
Candleholder-shaped pot made from bone, containing blue pigment. Outside of bone has gold coloured specks on it and is ornamented with red and blue paint around top and base.
References:
James W. VanStone. 1985. Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi: the William Duncan Strong Collection. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana, Anthropology New Series No.7. Lucien M. Turner. 1979[1894]. Indians and Eskimos in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. Quebec: Presses COMEDITEX. Lynn Drapeau. 1999. Dictionnaire Montagnais-français. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Innu Narrative:
“This must be unime kateakant (container or paint dish).” Munik (Gregoire) Rich
“This must be similar to the one we looked at – the container for unaman, but this one is not used yet. This must be used for unaman, and it is made out of a bone.” Pinamen (Rich) Katshinak
“An uname container. This is used for uname (paint), for painting. It can be used both at the same time, and whichever paint that is put in it. The paint stick can only be dipped in the container when it’s ready to use.” Uniam Katshinak
“Container for unaman (paint). I think that’s what it is for. People used it for storing their unaman (paints). The blue unaman (paint) has been used in this container. I don’t see any stencils here.” Matinen (Rich) Katshinak
Other Info:
“A block of wood with one or more bowl-shaped cavities cut in it…serves to hold the mixed paints, especially when several colors are to be used in succession. Small wooden bowls are also employed.” Turner (1979[1894]:133)
VanStone suggests that these bowls or cups are rightly called paint mortars. William Duncan’s Strong collection at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago “contains two paint mortars, one of which is a rectangular block of birchwood with rounded ends, into which two bowl-shaped cavities and one rectangular cavity have been cut. The bottom of one round cavity has been painted with red pigment and the other with blue. The rectangular cavity was probably for the water-oil vehicle… The second mortar is simply a small oval bowl of birchwood.” VanStone (1985:38)
Drapeau lists peshaikanlakan as “godet à peinture (paint cup).”