Rockholes - Shell Top - White and Silver on Ivory (Silk) Clothes This bishop sleeves top features

This bishop sleeves top features Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon's design

The background patterns of lines and dots represent the vast desert sands

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‘Watiya Tjuta’ Napurrula’s father

Rockholes - Shell Top - White and Silver on Ivory (Silk) Clothes This bishop sleeves top featuresThis 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