Rockholes - Bishop Sleeves Top - Pink and Gold on Burnt Orange (Silk) Clothes There they danced

There they danced

finishing just above the knee

100% linen

Holds colour beautifully and softens with age

The Watiya Tjuta in Mitjili’s paintings is her father’s Tjukurrpa (dreaming) in Ilyingaungau country (Gibson Desert)

Rockholes - Bishop Sleeves Top - Pink and Gold on Burnt Orange (Silk) Clothes There they dancedThis 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