ARTIST ONCE KNOWN - OENPELLI (DILLY HANDBAG)

ARTIST ONCE KNOWN
OENPELLI (DILLY HANDBAG),  0.1976
31h x 30.5w x 5d cm
Pandanus and vegetable dyes
 
REGION
Oenpelli Western Arnhem Land, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Injalak Artists, Oenpelli Western Arnhem Land, NT
Contemporary Australian Visions, VIC
Cooee Art Leven, NSW 
 
STORY
This basket, hand-woven of pandanus fibre, is a loose weave to allow water or air to pass through the basket and around its contents.

Baskets have been the most important forms for storing and carrying food and possessions among the essentially nomadic Australian Aboriginal people of the central Desert. 
 
 
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