Watiya Tjuta - Wrap Dress - Black on White (Linen) Merchandise I came to learn here

I came to learn here

passed down to her from Old Lady Napaltjarri Morton

Medium: 3x5ft (91x152cm)

We had to leave that place - my father

Please allow for slight variation in prints and ink due to the handmade nature of each piece

Watiya Tjuta - Wrap Dress - Black on White (Linen) Merchandise I came to learn hereThis wrap dress features Mitjili Napurrula's design, which depicts the Watiya Tjuta the acacia trees of Uwalkari country in the Gibson Desert used to make kulata (ceremonial spears). This is her father's Tjukurrpa, passed down to her by her mother, who first drew it for her in the sand. Mitjili was born in 1945 at Papunya and began painting at Ikuntji Women's Centre in 1992, winning the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1999. Mitjili passed away in April