Tipatshimuna Description:
A model of a sweat lodge made of wood. Bent twigs for the structure with four carved human figures inside. Speck recorded the Naskapi name for sweat lodge as “mede tsa’n.”
Sweat lodge (model)
| Name (French): | tente à suerie, modèle |
| Name (Innu): | matutishan / matutishanitshuap |
| Date Collected: | 1931 |
| Institutions: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Catalog Number: | 31-7-79 |
| Place Made: | Labrador |
| Maker: | |
| Collector: | Frank G. Speck |