This basket by Leona Young-Hermens is one in a collection of contemporary Norfolk Island weavings in the Queensland Art Gallery's Collection (see Acc. nos 2007.083-092). Weavers on Norfolk Island trace this practice back to their Pitcairn Islands ancestors. In 1856 the ship Morayshire anchored on Norfolk Island carrying the entire Pitcairn population. These passengers, the descendants of the HMAV Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian counterparts, were resettled due to growing numbers.

Some weavers, like Leona Young-Hermens, travel to and work from New Zealand: Maori weaving patterns and techniques can be traced in Hermens's work. She is one of a number of artists who has been experimenting with pandanus and other fibres and her work has been sold at the Norfolk Island Museum and in New Zealand. Baskets have various uses: mostly they are made for gwen rumma which is the collecting of periwinkles, or for holding fish. Baskets are also used as handbags. The Norfolk Island baskets in the Gallery's Collection show both the continuation of historical techniques and patterns and also trace contemporary influences.