Summary
A saucepan basket, coiled, with horizontal bands of dyed and undyed pandanus. Saucepan baskets also have two side handles or arms, predominately made by one coil that peels away from the main structure and then rejoins the other coils. The saucepan basket is not only about technical perfection of forms but about an eloquent sense of colour. The stiches are placed tight and close together, which intensifies the colour saturation.
Local Name
djabbilarna
Physical Description
Saucepan basket, coiled, with horizontal bands of dyed pandanus (yellow and brown) and undyed pandanus.It has two short rigid coiled handles that emerge from the last two coil bundles at the rim on opposite sides.
Significance
Suzannah is the daughter of fibre artist Margaret Nabulwad and has adapted some of her mothers close coiling techniques.
More Information
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Object/Medium
Basket
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Locality
Gunbalanya, Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
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Fully Extended
490 mm (Length), 430 mm (Width), 260 mm (Height)
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Collecting Areas
Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands, Australian Indigenous Identity and Contemporary Life