Kungkaku Puturru Fabric - Light Purple and Orange on Wine (Tencel Linen) 50cm Clothes Garment Details:

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from Arnhem Land to Central and the Western Desert regions

this book offers a wonderful insight into Western Desert Art

desert oaks and wild camels

This historically detailed and culturally sensitive narration of his fascinating life in Australia’s remote desert settlements is illuminating for metropolitan readers

Kungkaku Puturru Fabric - Light Purple and Orange on Wine (Tencel Linen) 50cm Clothes Garment Details:This design by Alison Napurrula Multa depicts the kungkaku puturru the hairstring women make from their own hair for ceremony. In the older days, women cut their own hair and spun it on their thighs to create string for dancing, ceremony and domestic purposes. Kungkaku puturru is connected to Kungkayunti (Brown's Bore) the place where the ancestral women who travelled from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) stopped and danced. Kungkayunti means women dancing.