Tipatshimuna 
Description:
Bundle of six wooden sticks (average length of 4.5″) with narrow stem and club-shaped heads. Bound by skin thong which has hardened. One stick has red paint on the stem.
References:
MacKenzie Shoebox dictionary 2003. Dorothy Burnham. 1992. To Please the Caribou. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Lynn Drapeau. 1999. Dictionnaire Montagnais-français. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Innu Narrative:
“No, we made our own small wooden sticks to paint the clothes with, or snowshoe frames. Mishinatapakeask.” Etuat Mistenapeo
“Yes, they used these colours to paint their clothing. Our grandma, Mary Jane [Pasteen], was very good at this sort of thing. That’s unime. And they had these paint sticks; they used them to paint.” Pinashue Benuen
“Those are used for painting or colouring different things like leggings, all kinds of clothing. They’re called paint sticks – peshanakueashkua.” Pinashue Benuen
“For 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
Other Info:
MacKenzie lists peshaikanashku and peshanikeashku as “paintbrush.
“The native people of Quebec-Labrador did not use soft brushes when doing their painting but stiff, hard tools made of antler or bone.” Burnham (1992:39)
“Painting tools exist in a number of museum collections, the curved ones made of antler, the small straight ones usually of bone. Only those made very recently are of wood.” Burnham (1992:39)
“Each woman probably owned a number of painting tools, and because they were important possessions they would have been buried with her.” Burnham (1992:40)
Need to research if the word peshaikanashku applies to paintbrushes, stencils, and paint sticks alike.