Women's Business Fabric - White on Moose (Tencel Linen) 50cm

Women's Business Fabric - White on Moose (Tencel Linen) 50cmThis design by Mavis Nampitjinpa Marks shows the 'Women's Business Story'. Mavis was born in 1945 at New Haven and moved to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) as a teenager with her mother. She was the sister of Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and Smithy Zimran Tjampitjinpa, and her sisters Yuyuya Nampitjinpa and Gina Nampitjinpa are from the same birth mother and father. When she married, she moved to Watiyawanu (Mt Liebig) with her husband and began to paint at the art

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

past Kulpitarra (Outstation) to attend to women's business

we all left together and went to Haasts Bluff

and generous side pockets

Mavis returned to Ikuntji at the death of her husband

two senior lawmen and renowned artists of the Papunya Tula art movement of the 1970s

My Grandmother used to paint

across the landscape scarring the land

Joyce paints a number of stories

like Maku (witchetty grub)

Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation is 100% Aboriginal owned and governed

I can't remember how it all happened