Fibre Objects

 

 

Basket

Thumnail

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Elaine Warnatjura Lane

Natural Fibres & Raffia

Blackstone Western Australia

Code: SO419 - Available

2005

Yawk Yawk

Thumnail

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131cm x

Frewa Bardaluna

Twined Pandanus

Maningrida. NT

Code: SO1941 - Available

2009

Butterfly Fish

Thumnail

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995cm x 144cm

Marina Murdilnga

Telstra entry

Twined Pandanus

Maningrida NT

Code: SO1935 - Available

2009

Eel Trap #5 Wungarr

Thumnail

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124cm x

Ninney Murray

lawyer cane

Cardwell. Queensland

Code: SO1997 - Available

2009

Eel Trap #3

Thumnail

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1.8m x

Ninney Murray

Ian’s

lawyer cane

Cardwell. Queensland

Code: SO1995 - Available

2009

Eel Trap #2

Thumnail

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105cm x

Ninney Murray

lawyer cane

Cardwell. Queensland

Code: SO1948 - Available

2009

Eel Trap #1

Thumnail

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105cm x

Ninney Murray

lawyer cane

Cardwell. Queensland

Code: SO1945 - Available

2009

Lawyer cane basket #3

Thumnail

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40cm x

Sandra Leo

lawyer cane

Cardwell. Queensland

Code: SO1944 - Available

2009

Lawyer cane basket #2

Thumnail

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50cm x

Sandra Leo

lawyer cane

Cardwell. Queensland

Code: SO1943 - Available

2009

Mat

Thumnail

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870cm

Katie Fry

The flattened round mats are derived from the conical pandanus mats used in rituals and ceremonies. Missionary influences in Arnhem Land communities contributed to the flattening of the mats to make them more ‘useful’ to a market far away from their source.
The flattened mats made in the Maginingrida area today are mainly twined, but some women make coiled mats. Closely twined work represent a minority; more dominant in the Maningrida region is a combination of plain twined areas which alternate with sections of either crossed or open twining producing much airy work.

Pandanus

East Central Arnhem Land. NT

Code: SO050 - Available

2004

 

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