Item X 104957 djabbilarna | Basket. Gunbalanya, Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. 2003

Summary

This coiled basket by Louise Nganjmirra has been designed with four diamond designs with crossed coil division in vibrant dyed pandanus. Diamond designs require more calculations and clever use of beginnings and endings of lengths of pandanus than other designs such as block colours.

Louise Nganjmirra lives at Kudjekbinj, an outstation, and produces coiled baskets that contain highly geometric patterning, including step and diamond designs.

Local Name

djabbilarna

Physical Description

Basket, coiled, with four diamond designs with crossed coil division in dyed pandanus (purple, brown, grey, yellow and white). It has two short rigid coiled handles that emerge from the last coil bundle at the rim on opposite sides.