Paint stick

Name (French):	instruments à peindre
Name (Innu):	peshanikaiashkᵘ / peshaikanashkua
Date Collected:	1920-1930
Institutions:	University of Pennsylvania Museum
Catalog Number:	30-3-150
Place Made:	Labrador
Maker:
Collector:	Frank G. Speck

Description:

Bone paint stick to make a three line design. Used for painting a design on face, body, clothing, equipment and accessories. Incised decoration on the reverse with red and blue bands and diamond designs. Used for the application of red paint.

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).