Tipatshimuna 
Description:
Made from caribou leg bone (tibia).
References:
Frank Speck. 1937. “Analysis of Eskimo and Indian skin-dressing methods in Labrador.” Ethnos. 2(6):345-353. Lucien M. Turner. 1979[1894]. Indians and Eskimos in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. Quebec: Presses COMEDITEX. James W. VanStone. 1985. Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi: the William Duncan Strong Collection. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana, Anthropology New Series No.7.
Innu Narrative:
“Pashkutshakan (caribou skin scraper).” Pinashue Benuen
“This is paskushikan (scraper). People always made these.” Munik (Gregoire) Rich
“The scraper is used to get the caribou hair off. The caribou hide is put onto a big piece of wood that has been scraped off well enough to put the hide over it. When the caribou hair has been removed, then the meat is also scraped off. This softens the hide and it is easy to work with. This is how the caribou hide is cleaned with the scraper. The hide is hung outdoors to dry. When it is dry, it is then ready to be smoked. My father made the scraper for me and I still use it today. I learned how to use the scraper from my parents, Shuashim Ashini and An-Pinamen McKenzie.” Manian (Ashini) Michel
Other Info:
Naskapi dictionary lists piskuuchikin as “beamer (caribou leg bone sharpened for removing hair by the roots from hide).”
“After the flesh and fat had been removed with a fleshing tool, a spruce pole was cut, stripped of its bark, flattened on one side, and driven into the snow so that the end reached just below a woman’s waist. She held the pole between her legs and spread the skin along it, hair side up, to remove the hair with a two-handed scraper. There are four in the collection, each one made from a caribou radius. Part of the central portion of the bone is removed and one edge sharpened… The worker leaned over the pole, holding the scraper in both hands. The tool was pulled with the grain of the hair and the accumulated pile of caribou hair blew away, unless it was to be saved to make a bed for newborn puppies… A large winter skin could be dehaired in about one hour.” VanStone (1985:22)
“When the pelt is ready for scraping it is thrown over a round stick of wood some 3 or 4 inches in diameter and 3 or 4 feet long, one end of which rests on the ground while the other is pressed against the abdomen of the woman who is doing the work. Then she takes a tool like a spoke shave…made from the radius of the deer, by cutting a slice off the middle part of the back of the bone, so as to make a sharp edge while the untouched ends serve for handles, and with this scrapes off the loosened hair. The sharp edge of the bone instrument coming against the hairs pushes or pulls them out but does not cut the skin.” Turner (1979[1894]:129)
“To remove hair, hair scraped off, with the grain, not against it, on slanting round log set in ground…with packwutcigan, leg bone (radius) spoke-shave for two hands.” Speck (1937:350)