Paint cups

Name (French):	pot de peinture
Name (Innu):	unaman unakan
Date Collected:	1920-1930
Institutions:	University of Pennsylvania Museum
Catalog Number:	Top: 30-3-146; bottom: 30-3-145
Place Made:	Labrador
Maker:
Collector:	Frank G. Speck

Description:

Two wooden painting cups (pallets) used in the decoration of caribou skin. 30-3-146 has two circular depressions for red and blue paint. 30-3-145 has four circular depressions for red, blue, purple and (unused) paint.

References:

For a description 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).