Tjilkamala Rockholes - Pinafores - Red and Orange on Brown Bags and Accessories almost papery texture

almost papery texture

This is not fashion inspired by Aboriginal art

Comfortable enough for every day

this design by Doreen Lane depicts a childhood memory - jumping in the back of a ute with her family and travelling from Papunya to Ulumbauru

Tjilkamala Rockholes - Pinafores - Red and Orange on Brown Bags and Accessories almost papery textureThis 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