Research Catalog

Title

Tjanpi desert weavers / compiled by Penny Watson for Tjanpi Desert Weavers; Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara Women's Council.

Author

Watson, Penelope-Jane

Publication

South Yarra, Victoria, Australia : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Rive, Linda
• Tjanpi Desert Weavers, author.
• Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation.

Description

367 pages : color illustrations, color map; 29 cm

Summary

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a employment enterprise within the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women's Council. The latter was formed as a response to the land rights struggles of the 1970s when Indigenous women realised they had no voice.

Subject

• Tjanpi Desert Weavers
• Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people)
• Pitjantjatjara (Australian people)
• Yankunytjatjara (Australian people)
• Aboriginal Australians > Australia
• Hand weaving > Australia
• Basket making > Australia
• Weavers > Australia
• Basket makers > Australia

Note

• "A few words from the translator, Linda Rive"--Page 13.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Grass Roots -- ch. Two Tjukutjuku Nintiringangi -- I Learnt in Small Increments -- ch. Three Lipiringu -- The Spread of Tjanpi -- ch. Four Tjanpi means Grass -- ch. Five No Strangers to Fibre -- ch. Six Lovely One-pa -- Inspiration -- ch. Seven A Big Family Business -- ch. Eight Winaringu! The Tjanpi Toyota -- ch. Nine Tjanpi has Tjukurpa, Tjanpi has Inma -- ch. Ten Eminently Collectable -- ch. Eleven Mrs Benson's School of Basket Making.

ISBN

• 9781921394898 (pbk)
• 1921394897 (pbk)
• 9781921394461 (hbk)
• 1921394463 (hbk)

OCLC

• 785977337
• SCSB-10231584

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library