Tjilkamala Rockholes - Pinafores - Red and Orange on Brown Option:Small taking the fruit

taking the fruit

tailored darts and a long waistline

with a distinctive textured surface

across the landscape scarring the land

I got this story from my grandfather

Tjilkamala Rockholes - Pinafores - Red and Orange on Brown Option:Small taking the fruitThis 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