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

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
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