Kettle stick

Name (French):	baton pour suspender un chaudron au-dessus du feu
Name (Innu):	tshipitaissikuan
Date Collected:	unknown
Institutions:	The Rooms, Provincial Museum Division
Catalog Number:	III-B-82
Place Made:	unknown
Maker:	displayed as example of Naskapi domestic equipment
Collector:	unknown

Description:

Long wooden stick, carved into a hook at one end. Used to lift kettles and pots from fire.

References:

MacKenzie Shoebox dictionary 2003. 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:

“What do you call it; when they have a boilup? Tshipatesiuuan – hanging a tea kettle on a stick.” Pinashue Benuen.

Other Info:

“Pots are suspended over the fire with pothooks of reindeer antler hung up by a loop of thong. These pothooks are also made of wood.” Turner (1979[1894]:138)

Drapeau lists assikuashku as “baton pour suspendre un chaudron au-dessus du feu (stick to hang a cauldron over the fire).”

MacKenzie lists tshipitaissikuan as “stick used to hang kettle on over open fire.”