Yalka at Karrkurutinytja - Apricot and Pinks on Maroon (Cotton) 50cm

Yalka at Karrkurutinytja - Apricot and Pinks on Maroon (Cotton) 50cmThis fabric features Daphne Marks' 'Yalka at Karrkurutinytja' design Bush onion dreaming at Lake Macdonald, passed down from her grandmother Narputta Nangala Jugadai. Daphne says: For a long time those old ladies have been looking for Yalka, digging for Yalka, taking the fruit, cooking it in the fire. The Tjukurrpa tells of two ancestral Nungurrayi women gathering bush onions at Karrkurutinytja and travelling west, before a Nakamarra follows their

Her grandmother was born at Dalhousie Hot Springs

expressing the colours and movement of the ininti tree and its seeds and flowers throughout the seasons

using hand dyed wool and finished with a heavy cotton backing

Eunice Napanangka Jack's design is printed on this wrap top

east of Kintore - Pintupi country owned by the Nungarrayi women

Kungkayunti

Kelly was born in 1970 at Lambara outstation west of Papunya and grew up at Haasts Bluff

he went to Papunya

They live in the gum trees and congregate even more after the rain

This Tjukurrpa (Dreaming)  was passed down to the Roseranna from her grandmother (grandfather's sister)

My grandfather speared a wallaby at Kuruyultu

I came to learn here