A traditional Aboriginal woven eel trap made in Berri, South Australia by Ngarrindjeri artist Yvonne Koolmatrie. Made from a bundle of coiled sedge reed stems with a simple loop stitch.

 

This eel trap is a replica of a practical object that countless generations of Ngarrindjeri people have made to collect eels in the River Murray. All along the river systems of the south-east, Indigenous people created similar traps, for which they collected sedge grasses. These, dried and split, they wove into marine traps in the distinctive Ngarrindjeri manner.