Tipatshimuna 
Description:
Wooden pallet, nearly rectangular (corners rounded at one end), with two hollowed out circular cups (diameter approximately 2″); one contains remnant of blue paint, the other red paint.
References:
Lucien M. Turner. 1979[1894]. Indians and Eskimos in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. Quebec: Presses COMEDITEX. 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.
Innu Narrative:
“For an uname container. This is used for uname (paint), for painting. It can be used both at the same time, and whichever paint is put in it. The paint stick can only be dipped in the container when it’s ready to use.” Uniam Katshinak
“The women were very skilled in painting the designs. The women today would know how to make them too if they tried. They used mikuanike, uname, and shiphipnipinish, uahuts (fish eggs). And they used a lot of different things for paint.” Tshishennish Pasteen
Other Info:
MacKenize lists uakun and uakua as “fish egg” and mikuanapui as “ink.”
“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… The prepared paints are put in the vessels already described, and when ready for use a quantity is taken with the finger and placed in the palm of the hand while the other fingers hold the instrument by which it is to be applied. The paint stick is carefully drawn through the thin layer of paint spread on the other palm and a quantity, depending on the thickness of the layer, adheres to the edges of the appliance and by a carefully guided motion of the hand the lines desired are produced.” Turner (1979[1894]:133)
“The collection 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.” VanStone (1985:38)