Rockholes - Shell Top - White and Silver on Ivory (Silk)

Rockholes - Shell Top - White and Silver on Ivory (Silk)This 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

all the men's stories

Karrkurrutintja country is an important site of the Pilkati (snake) Tjukurrpa (dreaming) of Kaniya Kutjarra (two carpet snakes

who has now passed away

and deep side pockets

I can't remember my grandfather or my grandmother

She was heavily pregnant with me

The design shows the story of Janyanpartinya creek (Mount Campbell)

Timmy was born in 1920 in the dry Alalbi creek bed near Haasts Bluff

killed it and eaten it

my mother taught me my father’s Tjukurrpa in the sand

there are lots of camels walking around in the sand hills

It refers to the vast and desolate sandhills of her country near Taalalpi