Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Interactive Baskets

The each of the baskets below can be rotated, click on the image to view.


Trucanini (c.1812–76)
Basket, 1874
white flag iris (Diplarrena moraea)
Collection of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
QVM1993:H:151

Patsy Cameron
Pormpener (Milky Way), 2007
Leengtenner (Tomahawk)
white flag iris (Diplarrena moraea),
maireener shells (Phasianotrochus irisodontes)

Vicki West
Water carrier, 2008
Launceston
bull kelp (Durvillaea potatorum),
red-hot poker (Kniphofia sp.), tea tree (Melaleuca sp.)

Vicki maikutena Matson-Green
Yolla... a tribute to the strength to survive in the face of adversity, 2008
West Launceston
white flag iris (Diplarrena moraea), yolla feathers

Zoe Rimmer
Open weave basket, 2008
larapuna (Eddystone Point)
white flag iris (Diplarrena moraea)

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