Tjilkamala Rockholes - Pinafores - Red and Orange on Brown Option:Extra Small Relaxed through the body

Relaxed through the body

I think about it every day

They are a result of a collaboration with Better World Arts and Kashmiri artisans

where she started collecing mungilpa (a staple seed food for the Pintupi people)

Tjilkamala Rockholes - Pinafores - Red and Orange on Brown Option:Extra Small Relaxed through the bodyThis pinafore by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon 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 rockholes and sandhills