Rockholes - Bishop Sleeves Top - Pink and Gold on Burnt Orange (Silk) Clothes near New Haven

near New Haven

120km west of Haasts Bluff

This design by Herman Whiskey depicts the Kanka

There they danced

This is her country and Dreaming

Rockholes - Bishop Sleeves Top - Pink and Gold on Burnt Orange (Silk) Clothes near New HavenThis bishop sleeves top 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