Tjilkamala Rockholes Fabric - Blue and Teal on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cm

Tjilkamala Rockholes Fabric - Blue and Teal on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cmThis design by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon depicts Takupalangu west of Kintore. This is Uta Uta Tjangala's country, which he has painted throughout his career. Nampitjinpa paints her father's country of rockholes (puli) and sandhills (tali). There is plenty bushtucker mangilpa, which are little black seeds around. The road to Kiwirrkurra passes Takupalangu on the side. Alice describes the big swamp of Takupalangu, in her Father's country. Takupalangu is

women used to cut their own hair and create this string by spinning the hair on their thighs

This is Uta Uta Tjangala’s country

The Watiya Tjuta in Mitjili’s paintings is her father’s Tjukurrpa (dreaming) in Ilyingaungau country (Gibson Desert)

or inside the pods still on the trees

a boat neckline

The circles represent waterholes scattered across the Country

and deep side pockets

Watiya Tjuta means trees

where you still can see them today

turning the land into a lake

This is the place where the snake lives and from which it travels to Haasts Bluff sometimes

This aviator jacket features Keturah Zimran OAM's design