ARTISTS ONCE KNOWN - WOVEN BASKET

ARTISTS ONCE KNOWN
WOVEN BASKET,  2003
35 x 28cm
pandanas and natural earth pigments as dye
 
REGION
Elcho Island, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Elchos Island Art and Craft Centre, N.T
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. 
 
EXHIBITED
NAIDOC Week, July 2011, Swiss Grand
 
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