Watiya Tjuta - Wrap Dress - Black on White (Linen) Merchandise made by your hands

made by your hands

which depicts the ininti - the batwinged coral tree - growing in sand around creek beds at Muruntji

winning the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1999

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Watiya Tjuta - Wrap Dress - Black on White (Linen) Merchandise made by your handsThis 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