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3 Pronged Bone Implement For Painting Robes

National Museum of Natural History

E89967-0

From card: "89967: Illus. in: Hndbook. of N. Amer. Indian, Vol. 6, Subarctic, Fig. 6B, pg. 178 and I.D. there as Naskapi."Illus. p. liii in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge.A three-pronged bone implement for painting robes. The Innu used fork-like sticks to paint complicated patterns on their clothing.

  • Type of Item paint bone
  • Culture Innu, Naskapi
  • Field Collector Lucien M. Turner
  • Made in Quebec
  • Collected in Quebec
  • Acquisition Date on January 9, 1884
  • Accession Number 013922

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