ABORIGINAL ART OF THE WESTERN & EASTERN DESERTS, THE TOP END & MORE

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Mitjili Napurrula

Mitjili Napurrula

Mitjili's distinctive style is anchored in the Tjukurrpa (dreaming) of her ancestors, notably the Watiya Tjuta, and her motifs represent the women’s side of the Tjukurrpa in her father’s country of Uwalki in the Gibson desert. Mitjili was born in Haasts Bluff and into a famous artistic family. Her mother was the artist, Tjunkiya Napaltjarri, who taught Mitjili the traditional symbolic language of the mythical stories by drawing them in...

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