Summary
This coiled pandanus saucepan basket by Sarah Nadjalaburnburn employs dyed green and pink checkerboard blocks of colour. Kunwinjku women make baskets and bowls that resemble household items and the one here is a popular form with its handles on opposite sides resembling a saucepan. It is known by the Kunwinjku term 'djabbilarna'. The large surface of this form allows for experimentation with colour and patterning, the rows often being stitched closely and tightly to intensify the colour.
Local Name
djabbilarna
Physical Description
Saucepan basket, coiled, with a counter-change pattern of dyed pandanus (pink and green). The basket has two sided, single coil pandanus handles attached on opposite sides of the basket.
Significance
Sarah Nadjalaburnburn favours making forms in the coiling technique.
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
315 mm (Length), 250 mm (Width), 120 mm (Height)
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Collecting Areas
Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands, Australian Indigenous Identity and Contemporary Life