Rare Jawun Bicornual Baskets
Tonya Grant is a Jirrbal woman of the Davidson Falls area, north of Cardwell. She is one of only a dozen weavers still making the Jawun, an extremely rare type of bicornual basket.
Tonya is an expert weaver of the Jawun, which is the traditional bicornual basket woven with lawyer cane and unique to the rainforest people. Tonya’s mother, Desley Henry was a well known and respected Jawun weaver whose baskets are in permanent museum, gallery and private collections throughout Australia and Internationally. Before Tonya’s mother died, she passed on her traditional techniques and skills to her daughters and grandchildren. Tonya is now creating her own Jawun, of differing size for different purposes.
Tonya collects special lawyer canes from the rainforest on her traditional country, prepares and splits the cane into fine strips. She then weaves intricate jawun. These were traditionally used for carrying food, tools and babies. The jawun was also used in the process of making poisonous seeds such as the black bean edible. The seeds were placed in the jawun for a number of days in the running waters of the creek to remove the toxins from the seeds.
H40cm w/o handles x W33cm x D24cm lawyer cane
2010-02-07
TG0912
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