Wooden dish/bowl

Name (French):	bol de bois
Name (Innu):	mishtikunakan or unakan
Date Collected:	unknown
Institutions:	The Rooms, Provincial Museum Division
Catalog Number:	III-B-88
Place Made:	unknown
Maker:	displayed as example of Naskapi domestic equipment
Collector:	unknown

Description:

Wooden vase-like dish consisting of bowl (approximately 2.25″ high and 2.25″ wide). Rim of bowl and base of stand painted red.

References:

*MacKenzie Shoebox dictionary 2003. 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:

“This must be a drinking cup unakan. People made these a long time ago before they had cups.” Pinamen (Rich) Katshinak

Other Info:

“The collection also contains a wooden cup carved in imitation of a European form…and a small goblet. The sides of this vessel are painted with alternate lines of red and blue pigment, between which are alternate dots in the same colors… Rogers…described Mistassini cups made from birch burls, which were carried by hunters. A small wooden cup without a handle was collected by Speck among the Lake St. John Montagnais.” VanStone (1985:24)