Painting tools, paint sticks

Name (French):	instruments à peindre
Name (Innu):	peshanikaiashkᵘ / peshaikanashkua
Date Collected:	1931
Institutions:	University of Pennsylvania Museum
Catalog Number:	Left: 31-7-56; right: 31-7-57
Place Made:	Labrador
Maker:
Collector:	Frank G. Speck

Description:

Bone paint sticks to make two parallel lines for decorating caribou clothing, equipment and accessories. The bone handles are carved with decorative shapes and notches.

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).