Rockholes - Shell Top - White and Silver on Ivory (Silk) Clothes at Karrkurrutintj

at Karrkurrutintj

The background patterns of lines and dots represent the vast desert sands

They feature

Hayley grew up in Eastern Arrernte Country and attended Yirrara College in Alice Springs

with a finish that deepens with wear

Rockholes - Shell Top - White and Silver on Ivory (Silk) Clothes at KarrkurrutintjThis shell top features Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon's design, which depicts Takupalangu, west of Kintore her father Uta Uta Tjangala's Country of rockholes (puli) and sandhills (tali). Takupalangu is a big swamp filled with bush vegetables called mungilpa. When Alice was a small girl she travelled this Country with her family, her mother collecting mungilpa and pummelling it into damper. Alice's Tjukurrpa is the porcupine Tjilkamala scurrying about the