Watiya Tjuta Fabric - Rose on Maroon (Cotton) 50cm

Watiya Tjuta Fabric - Rose on Maroon (Cotton) 50cmIn this design Mitjili Napurrula depicts her fathers Tjukurrpa, the ceremonial spear straightening in Uwalkari country (Gibson desert region). The Watiya Tjuta (Acacia Trees) are the trees that are used to make these spears. Uwalkari country is abundant with Watiya Tjuta, as well as sand hills and other plants. Mitjili paints the motif of the Watiya Tjuta, carrying on the recurring motif as her mother used to draw in the sand. Her mother passed on

Relaxed through the body

The rug depicts the water running down the sandhills into a waterhole

LENZING™ Modal fiber types have been certified as compostable and biodegradable under industrial

her mother collecting mungilpa and pummelling it into damper

The white pigment eddies around abstract forms that refer to the spearwood trees

This is her father's Tjukurrpa

in her Father's country

Alice was born in 1943 near Talaalpi

My Grandmother used to paint

This rug is available in three different sizes

The road to Kiwirrkurra passes Takupalangu on the side

Mitjili Napurrula spent her life painting the trees of the Western Desert