Rockholes - Shell Top - White and Silver on Ivory (Silk) Clothes ceremony and domestic purposes

ceremony and domestic purposes

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

‘Watiya Tjuta’ Napurrula’s father

This bishop sleeves top features Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon's design

passed down to him from his grandfather whose Country is Yarapilangu

Rockholes - Shell Top - White and Silver on Ivory (Silk) Clothes ceremony and domestic purposesThis 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