The maireener shells are still considered the most exquisite and prized shells for stringing, but in more recent years, James and other Tasmanian Aboriginal women have incorporated various other ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Aboriginal artist Lola Greeno was a little girl growing up at Prickly Bottom, on Tasmania's Cape Barren Island she used to comb the ...

HILARY BURDEN: Raised in a world of serene beauty framed by isolation and oppression, artist Lola Greeno is now represented in every major Australian museum and sought after internationally. At low ...

A rare Tasmanian shell necklace that was donated to a Scottish university in the 19th century is returning to its homeland, 30 years after the first request for its repatriation. The 148cm-long ...

Maireener shells can be difficult to find, not only due to their light colour, small size and the limited number of locations in Tasmania, but also because of the state’s ever-changing tides and ...

The maireener shell, commonly known as the rainbow kelp shell, was originally the only one used to thread in the necklace-making tradition. There are four different species of maireener shells native ...