Kowanyama Project Magazine - Issue 3: Ngethn o'! We're here!

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Photographs by Bernadette Boscacci

GIANT BASKET IS A HIT A collaborative work of weavers The fine weave basket was a multi-purpose traditional basket made with a range of plant fibres. Known in Yir Yoront (Kokomnjen) as thawl, in Kokoberra thabvlang and in Kunjen/Olkol as abmbin. Sometimes synthetic raffia is used in its weaving but never a giant basket like the one made by weavers at Ngethn o’. It is special!

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