Women's Business - Shift Dress - Copper on Petrol (Silk) Clothes Northern Territory

Northern Territory

Those women turned into stone and can be seen today

This shell top by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon depicts Takupalangu

120 reed dupion silk - luminous and iridescent

The story tells of a great bushfire coming from the east

Women's Business - Shift Dress - Copper on Petrol (Silk) Clothes Northern TerritoryThis shift dress by Mavis Marks depicts the Women's Business Story the ceremonial dancing of the women at Watiyawanu (Mt Liebig) and their body painting designs. Mavis was born in 1945 at New Haven and moved to Ikuntji as a teenager. She began painting at Watiyawanu after her marriage, returning to Ikuntji after the death of her husband. Her designs have walked international fashion weeks. A 1960s inspired shift dress in a flattering A line