Paint cups

Name (French):	bols, pots de peinture
Name (Innu):	ushkan unaman unakaniss / unaman unakan
Date Collected:	1920-1930
Institutions:	University of Pennsylvania Museum
Catalog Number:	Top (left to right): 31-7-45; 30-3-163; 30-3-160; bottom (left to right): 30-3-162; 31-7-44; 30-3-161
Place Made:	Labrador
Maker:
Collector:	Frank G. Speck

Description:

Bone and wood paint cups for mixing paint and paint medium for decorating caribou clothing, equipment and accessories.

References:

For a discussion of Innu painting tools, refer to Lucien Turner, Ethnology of Ungava District(1894/2001:296-298), and Dorothy Burnham, To Please the Caribou (1992:39-41).