Description
Description
This fabric features Daphne Marks' 'Yalka at Karrkurutinytja' design — Bush onion dreaming at Lake Macdonald, passed down from her grandmother Narputta Nangala Jugadai. Daphne says: “For a long time those old ladies have been looking for Yalka, digging for Yalka, taking the fruit, cooking it in the fire.” The Tjukurrpa tells of two ancestral Nungurrayi women gathering bush onions at Karrkurutinytja and travelling west, before a Nakamarra follows their tracks, encounters two Tjangalas at a rockhole, and flies off to become a rock at Kurultu.
Screen printed by hand in Australia. Available by the 50cm. Every purchase goes directly back to the artist and the community.
Make something with it. A dress. A cushion. Curtains. A piece of the Western Desert, made by your hands.
Every purchase from Ikuntji Artists goes directly back to the artist and the community of Haasts Bluff. Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation is 100% Aboriginal owned and governed—the first art centre in the Western Desert founded by women, for women, in 1992.
Fabric care instructions: Gentle cold hand wash only. Do not bleach, do not tumble dry, cool iron only.
This fabric features Daphne Marks' 'Yalka at Karrkurutinytja' design — Bush onion dreaming at Lake Macdonald, passed down from her grandmother Narputta Nangala Jugadai. Daphne says: “For a long time those old ladies have been looking for Yalka, digging for Yalka, taking the fruit, cooking it in the fire.” The Tjukurrpa tells of two ancestral Nungurrayi women gathering bush onions at Karrkurutinytja and travelling west, before a Nakamarra follows their tracks, encounters two Tjangalas at a rockhole, and flies off to become a rock at Kurultu.
Screen printed by hand in Australia. Available by the 50cm. Every purchase goes directly back to the artist and the community.
Make something with it. A dress. A cushion. Curtains. A piece of the Western Desert, made by your hands.
Every purchase from Ikuntji Artists goes directly back to the artist and the community of Haasts Bluff. Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation is 100% Aboriginal owned and governed—the first art centre in the Western Desert founded by women, for women, in 1992.
Fabric care instructions: Gentle cold hand wash only. Do not bleach, do not tumble dry, cool iron only.