Rectangular wooden bark beater with carved lines down the length, and a smooth cylindrical handle. Small piece of tape with collector number adhered to base of handle.

Beater used to push down weft during construction of a carpet. Implement is a large metal comb, tines long and rectangular, shorn off at an angle at tip. Metal slabs are used to separate tines at back of comb, with one extending upward to fit inside the handle which sits on top of comb at a steep angle. Handle is made of two pieces of wood, curving back to fit the hand. Pommel is rounded.

Beater used to push down weft during construction of a carpet. Implement is a large comb made of metal, tines long and triangular in profile, flat in width. They are melded together toward back, where comb is fitted at a 90 degree angle into the thick wooden handle.

« The consulting of oracles so as to determine where and when to hunt and to know the future with reference to the weather, illness, and personal matters was extremely important to the Lake St. John Montagnais. It is a subject that has been discussed in considerable detail by Speck (1935, pp. 138-147). A more recent discussion of the subject, with a different interpretation, is found in Tanner (1979, ch. 6). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.19. « When a hunter had begun to think about securing game animals, his will could be strengthened and his chances of success increased through drumming and singing (Speck, 1935, p. 169). The collection contains a single circular drum with two heads. The body of the drum consists of a strip of wood approximately 36 cm long and 6 cm wide, the ends of which are lashed together with sinew. There are four hoops, each approximately 1 cm square in cross section with an inside diameter slightly greater than the body of the instrument. The ends of the hoops are joined by a lap-splice held with sinew and small wooden pegs. The heads appear to have been made from pieces of thinly scraped caribou skin. To assemble the drum the piece of skin was wrapped around one of the hoops which was then slipped over the body of the drum. A second hoop was slipped over the body from the same side in order to secure the first hoop. The same procedure was followed for the head on the other side. The two outside hoops have been lashed together across the body of the drum with babiche. There is no suspension cord. The wooden drum stick has a widened, notched end (fig. 34). A similar drum is described by Rogers (1967, p. 122) for the Mistassini. Speck (1935, p. 170, pi. ix, lower) states that all Montagnais-Naskapi drums have a "snare" attachment consisting of a length of sinew stretched tightly across the head to which short sections of caribou bone or goose quills are tied; this drum does not have such an attachment. » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.20-21, fig 34 (p. 62).

Long, round wooden beater. The handle is about one third the length of the whole, with a thick carved ring between it and the head, and another ring at the bottom.