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Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, 2016. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Exhibition Publication. 220mm x 245mm. Shell-stringing is one of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community's most culturally significant and closely-guarded traditions. kanalaritja: An Unbroken String features a variety of beautiful, delicate and rare shell necklaces, created by Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestors in the 1800s, and acclaimed makers of today, as well as a new wave of stringers who had the opportunity to learn the tradition through the luna tunapri (women's knowledge) cultural revitalisation project. The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has worked with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community since 2010 to facilitate several luna tunapri workshops in which women in the community who had not had shell stringing passed down through their families, were guided through the intricate processes of collecting, cleaning and stringing. The women were encouraged to look in their local areas for shell collecting beaches and to use the… Read More