16cm high x 36cm long x 14cm wide

Cat : 977-22

Tjanpi Desert Weavers, a signatory of the the Indigenous Art Code, is a dynamic social enterprise of the NPY Women’s Council. Tjanpi (meaning ‘dry grass) supports Aboriginal women living in remote Central and Western desert communities to create contemporary fibre art.

When collecting desert grasses (minarri, wangurnu and yirlintji) women visit sacred site and traditional homelands, hunt and gather food for their families and teach children about country. Grass is bound with wool, string or raffia and combined with yirnirnti (red seeds of the bat-wing coral tree) and wipiya (emu feathers).

Text courtesy of Tjanpi Desert Weavers