Kungkaku Puturru - Doris Day Dress

Kungkaku Puturru - Doris Day DressThis Doris Day shift dress by Alison Napurrula Multa depicts the kungkaku puturru the hairstring women make from their own hair for ceremony. In the older days, women cut their own hair and spun it on their thighs to create string for dancing, ceremony and domestic purposes. Kungkaku puturru is connected to Kungkayunti (Brown's Bore) the place where the ancestral women who travelled from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) stopped and danced. Kungkayunti means

Relaxed through the body

The seeds can be found in the sand

however please take care when washing (wash garments inside out if possible)

Benita has lived at Ikuntji and Brown's Bore all her life and began painting in 1999

we all left together and went to Haasts Bluff

This wrap dress by Mitjili Napurrula depicts the Watiya Tjuta - the acacia trees of Uwalkari country in the Gibson Desert - used to make kulata (ceremonial spears)

Muruntji is west of Kungkayunti (Browns Bore)

They work with Australian Aboriginal artists from remote communities across Australia

From the top of the tali tali

The paintings of Napurrula and her husband

Has been operating for over two decades

locally known as bush lolly