
Woven Basket Katherine Quaema 4079-20
Tjanpi artists use native grasses to create contemporary fibre art. This beautifully woven round basket is handmade by Katherine Quaema.
Dimensions: 19cm D x 7cm H, round basket
Materials: Tjanpi (wild harvested grass), Purple/pink/yellow/lime/blue Raffia, purple Wool edge
Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council created to enable women in Australia's remote central deserts to earn their own income from fibre art. Tjanpi represents more than 400 Aboriginal women artists from 26 remote communities on the NPY lands. The NPY lands cover approximately 350,000 square kilometres across the tri-state (WA, SA, NT) border region of Central Australia.
Click here to learn more about the Tjanpi Desert Weavers.