paint mortar
| Nom de l'objet : | paint mortar |
| Artiste ou artisan : | unknown |
| Numéro de catalogue : | III-B-155 |
| Province d'origine : | unknown |
| Province d'utilisation : | unknown |
| Culture : | Barren Ground Innu |
| Contexte culturel : | A block of wood with one or more bowl-shaped cavities cut in it..serves to hold the mixed paints, especially when several colors are to be used in succession. Small wooden bowls are also employed..The prepared paints are put in the vessels already described, and when ready for use a quantity is taken with the finger and placed in the palm of the hand while the other fingers hold the instrument by which it is to be applied. The paint stick is carefully drawn through the thin layer of paint spread on the other palm and a quantity, depending on the thickness of the layer, adheres to the edges of the appliance and by a carefully guided motion of the hand the lines desired are produced. - Turner (1979[1894]:133).The collection contains two paint mortars, one of which is a rectangular block of birchwood with rounded ends, into which two bowl-shaped cavities and one rectangular cavity have been cut. The bottom of one round cavity has been painted with red pigment and the other with blue. The |
| Date de fin de production : | unknown |
| Fonctions : | For an uname container. This is used for uname (paint), for painting. It can be used both at the same time, and whichever paint is put in it. The paint stick can only be dipped in the container when it's ready to use - Uniam KatshinakThe women were very skilled in painting the designs. The women today would know how to make them too if they tried. They used mikuanike, uname, and shiphipnipinish, uahuts (fish eggs) [MacKenize lists uakun and uakua as fish egg; mikuanapui as ink]. And they used a lot of different things for paint - Tshishennish Pasteen |
| Publications ou références : | 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. |
| Établissement : |
The Rooms, Provincial Museum
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| Ville de l'établissement : | St. John's |
| Province de l'établissement : | Newfoundland and Labrador |
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