ARTIST ONCE KNOWN - WEVEN BASKET FROM ELCHO ISLAND

ARTIST ONCE KNOWN
WEVEN BASKET FROM ELCHO ISLAND,  
10h x 57w x 36d cm
Wrapping/coiling technique natural fibres with vegetable dyes
 
REGION
Elchos Islands, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Elchos Islands Arts and Crafts, 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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