Australian season at the British Museum

Photograph of an indigenous man carrying an infant and a baby basket, early 20th century Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum Sidney Nolan's Ram suspended in tree, 1954 Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum Sidney Nolan's painting Kelly, 1954 Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum Fred Williams, You Yangs series, 1963 Photograph: PR Sidney Nolan, I named the hill Mount Hopeless, 1954 Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum Tasmanian water carrier made from a single piece of bull kelp, one of the fastest-growing algae in the world Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum A bicornial basket woven from cane, from Queensland, early 1900s Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum A painted basket made of vegetable string fibre, Northern Territory Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum A modern-day dilly bag made from natural and dyed pandanus fibre, Northern Territory Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum Anigozanthos , better-known as kangaroo paw Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens Banksia integrifolia . Commonly known as Coast banksia, the species of tree grows along Australia's east coast Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens Flowers of a Brachychiton (bottletree) Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens Largarstrobos franklinii is a species of conifer native to south-west Tasmania Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens OCBIL – or old climatically buffered inselberg landscape in Australia Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens