Tipatshimuna 
Description:
Model consists of round, cylinder-like wooden handle; four small wooden floats, grooved around middle and attached to skin thong threaded around edges of hide cord net. Five pyrite weights attached also with skin thong. Net and cord twined around handle.
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. Diary of H. J. Koehler, Sr. 1929 trip into interior Labrador accompanied by Arnold Dorldeman, and guide.
Innu Narrative:
“Anapi – fish net. The Innu used to make their own nets and they would be bought from a store as well. They used to buy the line. It does not take long to make a fishing net. The nets usually were made wide. The nets would be very long. They used three or four rolls of line. Today, we purchase our nets. They are already made. The men used to show the women how to make fishing nets. The women used to make the nets with umatshishkut – fishing net needle. In the old days, the Innu people used to make two or three umatshishkut to use for making fishing nets. Usually two or three people would make one net and they were fast. Umatshishkut was also used to measure a square in a net. The nets had different sizes. A large squared size net was for salmon and a small net was for trout and suckers. Suckers – mikuashai (red sucker) and makatsheu (white sucker). Atikameku (white fish). When the Innu travelled along the Naskaupi River [Mishikamau-shipu], they used the salmon net, the big net. You would get a lake trout, salmon, big fish. You could get the same for white fish also [they would take three sizes of nets into the country – one for salmon, one for lake trout, and a smaller one for brook trout, whitefish and suckers] ashiniapi – net sinker (used in ice fishing).” Shimun and Manian (Ashini) Michel
Other Info:
“The collection contains what is identified in the catalog as a ‘model section of old type trout net’. The netting is made of knotted, tanned caribou skin line with four sinkers of medium to coarse granitic rocks attached with babiche. The selvage lines, placed along the top and bottom edges, are also of babiche. There are two summer net floats, long flat pieces of dry wood pointed at the broad end and notched at the end attached to the net… Accompanying this model net is a wood stick 39 cm long, described as being used ‘for attachment’. It is pointed at one end and may have served to hold part of the net upright when it was set out from shore… A gill net was constructed with the aid of a wooden netting needle, two of which occur in the Strong collection.” VanStone (1985:15)
Akushtinakan – “float for net” (MacKenzie Shoebox dictionary).
During his 1929 expedition north of Mingan, Herman J. Koehler reported: “On the shore [Lac Magpie] we found small net sinker stones with small spruce roots tied around them which had been used by the Indians as weights to keep their nets down” (Diary, August 8, 1929).