Venison cache (model)

Name (French): boite en bois recouverte de neige glacée
Name (Innu): ashkashkuaikan
Date Collected: unknown
Institutions: The Rooms, Provincial Museum Division
Catalog Number: III-B-15
Place Made: unknown
Maker: unknown
Collector: Richard White

Description:

Wooden model with a base or floor (approximately 8.5″ by 4.75″ by 1″ ). Walls are built in log cabin style from pieces of wood (approximately 7.5″ and 5.5″ long by 1″ wide). Top formed by three 5.5″ length pieces which are merely laid across opening. All wood is stripped of bark and sawn to size; however there is a patch of bark on the corner of the base. A strip of soft white skin is wrapped around the model, holding it in position .

References:

Lynn Drapeau. 1999. Dictionnaire Montagnais-français. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’Université du Québec.