Aboriginal Carrying / Digging Bowl (also called a Coolamon or a food gathering bowl) - Timber, Hand-Painted featuring modern Aboriginal art design painted by an Australian Aboriginal artist. This item functions as an attractive decor piece and an interesting tableware bowl for fruit or for snacks at parties.
Dimensions: approximately 33-40cm long, 17cm wide and 6cm deep

These Aboriginal hand-carved wooden carrying vessels were traditionally used by Indigenous women to carry water, fruits, nuts, as well as to cradle babies (with the cushioning of a soft paperbark inner lining). Today when women gather bush tucker, in some regions they still use a the coolamon while others use a billy can, bucket or flour tin. Coolamons were carried on the head when travelling any distance, or under the arm if used as a cradle.

PLEASE NOTE: NOT ONE OF THEM IS PAINTED LIKE ANOTHER. SO PLEASE UNDERSTAND, THE DISPLAY PICTURE IS A ONE-OFF.

Shipping: Dispatched within 24 hours for arrival at your shipping address within 12 business days (from Queensland, Australia).