Tjilkamala Rockholes Fabric - Grey and White on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cm Bags and Accessories She told me that story…Yalka…Bush

She told me that story…Yalka…Bush food…For a long time those old ladies have been looking for Yalka

Everyone jumped on the back of the truck and drove out sitting on the tray to go swimming

Her mother carried her piggyback all the way from Western Australia to Haasts Bluff as a little girl

drip dry in shade

I got this story from my grandfather

Tjilkamala Rockholes Fabric - Grey and White on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cm Bags and Accessories She told me that story…Yalka…BushThis fabric by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon 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 rockholes and sandhills